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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Plants, Animals, and Humans | |
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| Who Cares About Palms? | |
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| Are Plants Alive? | |
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| Contemplating Our Navel | |
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| A Bias Bordering on Injustice | |
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| The Garden and the Peasant | |
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| The Sorcery of Omnipresence | |
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| And the Disadvantage of Otherness | |
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| A Bit of Psychology | |
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| Comparing Plants and Animals | |
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| A Visit to the Landscape of Form | |
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| Whence Form? | |
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| Capturing Energy | |
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| Plants, Vast Fixed Surfaces | |
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| Animals, Small Mobile Volumes | |
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| With Vast Internal Surfaces | |
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| Consequences of Growth | |
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| The Structure of Space | |
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| The Scale of Natural Phenomena | |
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| Relationship Between Form and Space | |
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| Changing the Scale | |
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| One Polarity and Radial Symmetry: Plants | |
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| Two Polarities and Bilateral Symmetry: Animals | |
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| And Monsters? | |
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| What Is an Embryo? | |
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| Homeotic Genes | |
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| Animal Eggs, Plant Eggs | |
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| Animals Are Strange | |
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| Hormones | |
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| The Action of Light Remains a Mystery | |
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| The Miniature Model Versus the Sample | |
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| Closed and Open Development | |
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| Stories of Trees | |
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| Fixed but Not Immobile | |
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| The Time Scale for Plants | |
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| Movement and Growth | |
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| What Do the Poets Think? | |
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| Individuals or Colonies? | |
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| The Discovery of Reiteration | |
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| What Is an Individual? | |
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| Is a Tree an Individual? | |
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| Potentially Immortal Beings | |
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| Two Ways of Dying | |
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| The Cell | |
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| Characteristics of the Eukaryotic Cell | |
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| Differences in Structure | |
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| One Cell Within Another | |
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| Differences in Function | |
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| Where the Horticulturist Precedes the Biologist | |
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| Foreshadowing at the Cellular Level | |
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| Plant Biochemistry in a Nutshell | |
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| The Silhouette, Cellulose or Protein | |
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| A Regrettable Inelegance | |
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| A Look at the Krebs Cycle | |
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| Biochemistry for Normal Life | |
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| Biochemistry for Relief | |
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| An Altruistic Tree | |
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| A Butterfly That Remembers Shapes | |
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| Biochemistry to Take Advantage of Animal Mobility | |
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| Are Animals Manipulated by Plants? | |
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| A Pinnacle of Beauty | |
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| Nauseating Flowers | |
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| Copulating Flowers and Animals | |
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| Evolution | |
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| Do Plants and Animals Evolve the Same Way? | |
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| One Plant, Two Generations | |
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| Parasitic Reduction in the Haploid Generation | |
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| One Animal, One Generation | |
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| Soma and Germ | |
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| Do Plants Have a Germ Line? | |
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| The Plasticity of Organisms | |
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| Who Wins the Prize for Plasticity? | |
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| Genomic Plasticity | |
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| Generators of Genetic Diversity | |
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| Tissue Culture | |
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| Hybrids Between Species | |
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| Genetic Diversity Within the Plant | |
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| The Strangler Figs of Lake Gatun | |
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| Sorting Mechanisms | |
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| Predatory Action | |
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| What Does Plant Sexuality Mean? | |
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| What Causes Genetic Diversity Within a Plant? | |
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| The Vertebrate Immune System | |
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| Stationary Lives and Genetic Diversity | |
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| Resistance of Biologists to a Genetics Unique to Plants | |
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| Darwin or Lamarck? | |
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| Are Bacteria Lamarckian? | |
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| How Weeds Defend Themselves Against Herbicides | |
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| Must We Choose Between Darwin and Lamarck? | |
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| Geographic Convergence | |
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| Divaricating Plants of New Zealand | |
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| The Beeches of Verzy | |
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| Mimes and Mimicry | |
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| Two Different Classifications | |
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| Of Other Living Beings | |
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| Fungi | |
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| Trees and Corals | |
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| Coral Architecture | |
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| Returning to the Idea of the Individual | |
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| Concerning Plasticity | |
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| Reticulate Evolution | |
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| The Forest and the Reef | |
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| How to Live Fixed in Place | |
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| Plants and Insect Societies | |
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| Evolution of Behavior or of Form? | |
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| Looking for Analogues | |
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| Is a Plant a Crystal? | |
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| Immanence and Transcendence | |
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| Ecology | |
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| Give Plants Their Due | |
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| Nutrition and Biological Types | |
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| Ambiguity in the Relationship Between Eater and the Eaten | |
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| Climates and Landscapes | |
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| Who Needs the Other Most? | |
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| Noah's Two Arks | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| What Do We Recognize as Success? | |
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| In Praise of Plants | |
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| Dispersion or Concentration | |
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| Are Plants Persons? | |
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| The Two Faces of Botany | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |