Author: Monica A. Geber
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662039087
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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Written by the leading experts in the field, this book examines the evolutionary advantages of gender dimorphism and sexual dimorphism in flowering plants. Divided into three sections: the first introduces readers to the tremendous variety of breeding systems and their evolution in plants and sets the stage for a consideration of the evolution of dimorphism in reproductive and non-reproductive characters. The second section deals with the evolution of secondary sexual characters, including the theory related to the evolution of sexual dimorphism and its empirical patterns, while the last section deals with the genetics of gender expression and of secondary sexual characters.
Author: Sam George
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526130173
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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In this fascinating study, Samantha George explores the cultivation of the female mind and the feminised discourse of botanical literature in eighteenth-century Britain. In particular, she discusses British women’s engagement with the Swedish botanist, Carl Linnaeus, and his unsettling discovery of plant sexuality. Previously ignored primary texts of an extraordinary nature are rescued from obscurity and assigned a proper place in the histories of science, eighteenth-century literature, and women’s writing. The result is groundbreaking: the author explores nationality and sexuality debates in relation to botany and charts the appearance of a new literary stereotype, the sexually precocious female botanist. She uncovers an anonymous poem on Linnaean botany, handwritten in the eighteenth century, and subsequently traces the development of a new genre of women’s writing — the botanical poem with scientific notes. The book is indispensable reading for all scholars of the eighteenth century, especially those interested in Romantic women’s writing, or the relationship between literature and science.
Author: Branka Arsic
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 150137060X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Plants are silent, still, or move slowly; we do not have the sense that they accompany us, or even perceive us. But is there something that plants are telling us? Is there something about how they live and connect, how they relate to the world and other plants that can teach us about ecological thinking, about ethics and politics? Grounded in Thoreau's ecology and in contemporary plant studies, Dispersion: Thoreau and Vegetal Thought offers answers to those questions by pondering such concepts as co-dependence, the continuity of life forms, relationality, cohabitation, porousness, fragility, the openness of beings to incessant modification by other beings and phenomena, patience, waiting, slowness and receptivity.
Author: Oliver Joseph Thatcher
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Author: Robert John ?- Thornton
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781021796363
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This groundbreaking work on botanical classification offers a detailed examination of plant reproduction, including a thorough explanation of Linnaeus's groundbreaking taxonomy system and a dissertation on the sexes of plants. With beautiful illustrations and detailed descriptions of plant anatomy and morphology, this book is a valuable resource for botanists, biologists, and anyone interested in the natural world. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: John Herbert Slater
Publisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Author: Oliver Joseph Thatcher
Publisher:
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Author: Edinburgh University Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
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Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Author: Robert Brown
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 644
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