Genius of Trees

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Plt;bPgt;The mind-expanding global story of how trees have used the elements to shape our world - possessing agency beyond anything we might have imaginedPlt;/bPgt;

Plt;pPgt;Plt;iPgt;The Genius of TreesPlt;/iPgt; tells the mind-expanding global story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Over hundreds of millions of years, from prehistoric forests to the trees around us today, we see trees using fire as a reproductive tool, harnessing large mammals to spread their seeds (but poisoning smaller, less useful mammals), and splitting rock to create fertile ground in barren landscapes.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;Because trees, we discover, manipulate fundamental elements, plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and even humankind to achieve their ends. From the laurel cloud-forests of the Canary Islands to the magnificent sex-shifting oaks of Iraq, from the giant sequoias of California to the carbon-spinning junipers of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border P#8211; trees sculpt their environments.Plt;BRPgt;Plt;BRPgt;At once transporting and expert, Plt;iPgt;The Genius of TreesPlt;/iPgt; gives us hope for the future. It enables us to see trees, for the first time, not as victims but as agents of change in a grand ecological narrative P#8211; and as leading actors in the great drama of life on earth.Plt;/pPgt;

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781529921267
Published: March 2026

Number of pages: 320
Width: 128 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 23 mm

Publisher: Vintage Publishing