Thursday, January 23, 2014

Plant learning 2.0

A recent study (ie. published Jan. 5) argues that the Mimosa pudica has the capacity for learned behavior. This makes for a very interesting context for reading Shelley's "The Sensitive Plant" and Chamovitz popular book on plant "thought."
Here the news release; I've posted the scientific study to our Blackboard site. I'd also suggest reading the comments section on the news release. 

No comments:

Post a Comment