[HN Gopher] Being Green: A new book marvels at the strangeness o...
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       Being Green: A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants
        
       Author : Petiver
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2024-05-09 20:14 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | QuercusMax wrote:
       | Looks like an interesting book. The author will be giving a talk
       | at Powell's in downtown Portland next week - I just might go and
       | check it out.
        
       | __MatrixMan__ wrote:
       | Subtitled:
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       | > A new book marvels at the strangeness of plants--and tries a
       | little too hard to explain how they're like people.
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       | If you're ever at risk of thinking that plants are like people,
       | you can cure it by reading about alternation of generation in
       | bryophytes. If bryophytes were like humans it would be like if
       | our (haploid) sperm/eggs went out and got a job and an apartment
       | and a social life and only bothered spin up a (diploid) human for
       | sexy times. Plants are bizarre.
        
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