The Genius of Trees - How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world - Hardcover Tai Shani Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita

Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California

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The Genius of Trees - How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world - Hardcover Tai Shani Haraway is Distinguished Professor EmeritaThe Genius of Trees tells a mind expanding global story revealing the inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world. 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. Because trees,