Seeds, Sex, and Civilization: How the Hidden Life of Plants Has Shaped Our World

by Peter Thompson and Stephen Harris

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Seeds have influenced evolution, and for millennia they have influenced and sometimes determined where and how we live. This is an epic tale, given added enchantment by the fact that to most of us seeds mean little more than tiny objects in paper packets: who thinks first of rice, wheat, coffee, nuts, peas, beans, or olives? Here, Peter Thompson unfolds the absorbing history of how, after centuries of investigation, we finally discovered what seeds...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0500251703

ISBN13:9780500251706

Release Date:September 2010

Publisher:Thames & Hudson

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.95 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Agricultural Sciences Ancient Biological Sciences Botany Early Civilization Engineering History History & Philosophy Plants Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology Technology

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