Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence

In Planta Sapiens, Paco Calvo shows for the first time how humans can use tools developed to study animal cognition in a quest to understand plant intelligence. Calvo also illuminates how plants inspire technological advancements, from robotics to AI. Most importantly, he demonstrates that plants are not objects: they have their own agency. If humans recognize plants as actors alongside them in the climate crisis–rather than seeing them simply as resources for carbon capture and food production–plants may just be able to help to tackle the most urgent problems.