Science Focus Book Club: Further reading on plants, deep time and the world beneath our feet
How do trees communicate in a forest? How has evolution shaped the Earth? Here's some more for you to read while taking part in September's Science Focus Book Club.
Published: September 9, 2020 at 4:04 pm
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Can the wood-wide web really help trees talk to each other?
5/15/2020
There’s evidence that trees communicate via a vast, underground network of fungal connections – we dive in to the murky world of mycorrhizal networks.
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nature
planet-earth
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Gaia Vince: What part does culture play in our evolution?
12/7/2019
Journalist and broadcaster Gaia Vince tells us how culture evolution played a big part in Homo sapiens dominance over the other hominins.
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the-human-body
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Meet the scientists going to extreme lengths to study climate change
8/19/2020
Scientists around the world are studying everything from glaciers to deserts to find out how climate change is affecting our planet.
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nature
planet-earth
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Mammal evolution: How ancient fossils are revealing the secrets of our earliest ancestors
6/21/2020
Before Tyrannosaurus rex and Diplodocus roamed the planet, a group of small animals were eking out a successful existence and would one day come to dominate - here’s how a bounty of new fossils is telling us their story.
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nature
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Humans grew plants in 'forest islands' of the Amazon 10,000 years ago
4/9/2020
Scientists believe south-western Amazonia to be the fifth area of the world where the earliest domestication of plants began.
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Evolution is most certainly a theory, but certainly not “just” a theory
8/10/2020
Considerable confusion exists over some very fundamental aspects of evolution, compounded by the language we use to describe it.
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nature
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Earth’s ancient geography 'directed the course of human evolution'
11/20/2019
In his book, Origins, astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell shows us how the Earth’s ancient geography has influenced the development of human civilisations, and how it still affects our behaviour today.
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planet-earth
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Neil Shubin: How do big changes in evolution happen?
6/4/2020
Evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin explains how life made the jump from land to water and how dinosaurs took to the air.
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nature
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Life finds a way: when nature reclaims abandoned places
7/20/2020
What happens to a human environment when all the people leave? Nature takes it back.
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nature
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Can planting billions of trees help tackle climate change?
9/13/2019
We speak to Bob Ward, the policy and communications director for the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
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