Natalie Lawrence · The Public Domain Review · 2022
“Spontaneous Revolutions”: Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement
Much of botany in Britain at this time was focused on taxonomy.
Why we picked it
Darwin’s bedside observations of climbing plants reveal both the ingenuity of his experiments and a neglected history of treating plants as active organisms.
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