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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the return of seagrasses to the water after their epic conquest of terrestrial habitats on leaving the sea. This is the plant equivalent of the whale journey, and no less difficult genetically, biochemically, metabolically, and anatomically. On leaving the sea for the land they became different organisms, and so with their return to the sea. It is an epic story in the true sense of the word, impressive in scope and achievement, the Iliad of the plant world. View in LinkedIn

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“Time present and time past" "Are both perhaps present in time future," "And time future contained in time past." "If all time is eternally present" "All time is unredeemable." "What might have been is an abstraction" "Remaining a perpetual possibility" "Only in a world of speculation." "What might have been and what has been" "Point to one end, which is always present.”" "(T. S. Eliot Four Quartets). https://lnkd.in/dufddhX View in LinkedIn

SELECT, MEMORIZE, ACCESS. "Hence to meet these criteria, a plant must be able to select relevant things to memorize and actively access those memories to modify the timing, quality or quantity of its behavioral response when exposed to external stimuli." https://lnkd.in/dH68RKn View in LinkedIn

HABITUATION. "Often considered to be the simplest form of learning, habituation is an adaptive process that enables an organism to focus on the important information in its environment, while filtering out stimuli or events that, over time, have repeatedly proven to be irrelevant and innocuous." https://lnkd.in/dH68RKn View in LinkedIn

MIMOSA HABITUATION. "This not only excludes the possibility that this is simply rapid re-habituation, it demonstrates an increase in the tendency of individuals to take a specific action in response to a known stimulus based on prior learning." https://lnkd.in/dH68RKn View in LinkedIn