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It is less difficult to create a new leaf than to repair the damage caused by an active season’s wear and tear. View in LinkedIn

MODULAR PLANT SWARMS. "Mancuso’s hypothesis is that something similar is at work in plants, with their thousands of root tips playing the role of the individual birds—gathering and assessing data from the environment and responding in local but coördinated ways that benefit the entire organism." https://lnkd.in/dvFaNgd View in LinkedIn

SWARM THINKING. "In a flock, each bird has only to follow a few simple rules, such as maintaining a prescribed distance from its neighbor, yet the collective effect of a great many birds executing a simple algorithm is a complex and supremely well-coördinated behavior." https://lnkd.in/dvFaNgd View in LinkedIn

NO PLASTIC BACKDROP. “A growing body of research suggests that far from being merely a passive, green backdrop to the natural world, plants actively engage in complex behaviour. They are capable of communicating with allies, attacking rivals and even feeding their young.” https://lnkd.in/dGP73v2 View in LinkedIn

INCIDENTAL IMPRINT? "While the density of annual rings on a cross-cut of a branch may provide a dendrologist insight into long-term climatic development, it is highly improbable that this information is accessible to the tree itself. Such “stored information” may be a mere imprint of incidents and accidents of the past, without any informative value for those involved." https://lnkd.in/dfsCv77 View in LinkedIn

DATA ACCESS. "Plants store a wealth of data about their history in the structure of their bodies. Given the permanent character of cell walls, every branch and twig holds information about the past. However, this by no means guarantees that the plant cares—or that it is at least capable of accessing these data." https://lnkd.in/dfsCv77 View in LinkedIn

Afternoon tea just waiting for you. View in LinkedIn