
An impression of an environment caused by prehistoric plants by an artist
Christian Jegou / Science Photo Library
When the earth was green
Riley Black (St Martin’s Press (US, now available; UK, then this month))
The behavior of plants is invisible to man’s naked eye. Our imaginations cannot be entertained, and they walk above the well-known categories of cars, others and community. I recognize that I find you boring.
Fortunately, others don’t – Riley Black, paleontologist and occasionally New scientist Collaborator for one. Wandering (or?) 14,000 Annual Aspen Clone, made by a single organism …