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Los Hombres Que Amaban a Las Plantas [Spanish]
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This essay explores five centuries of discoveries in the plant world through the lives of naturalists, geneticists, and botanists passionate about plants, trees, agriculture, and genetics. For example, Charles Darwin, who identified a species of butterfly that could only pollinate one type of orchid. Or Leonardo da Vinci, who dedicated himself to studying phyllotaxis, the arrangement of leaves on a plant's stem to capture sunlight. And how can we forget to mention the tragic story of the Russian geneticist Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, who isolated the supergrain of wheat in his laboratory that would feed millions of peasants only to fall victim to Stalin's purges and die in one of his prisons. Stefano Mancuso also recounts the incredible life of George Washington Carver, the first Black American to graduate in Agriculture, who invented a revolutionary method for cultivating peanuts, or that of Charles Harrison Blackley, who, risking his own life, discovered the origins of hay fever. Included are many other scientists who changed our ideas about the universe we live in, completing an account of the most astonishing and sometimes unknown discoveries in the plant world.
Format:Paperback
Language:Spanish
ISBN:8410107643
ISBN13:9788410107649
Release Date:April 2025
Publisher:Galaxia
Length:160 Pages
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