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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 | |