Flora Unveiled

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i i 1 iii iii Flora Unveiled The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants Lincoln Taiz and Lee Taiz ...

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i v v v Contents Preface vii Acknowledgments ix The Quandary Over Plant Sex 1 The Discovery of Sex  11 Crop Domestication and G ...

vi i Contents Idealism and Asexualism in the Age of Goethe  Sex and the Single Cryptogam  Flora’s Secret Gardens  I ...

i vii vii vii Preface In this book, we attempt to answer two basic questions:  why did it take so long to discover sex in plants ...

viii i Preface qualities we attribute to males or females. The association of plants with women and the entanglement of ideas ab ...

i ix ix ix Acknowledgments Our most valuable resource during the writing of Flora Unveiled has been the many scholars, librarian ...

x i Acknowledgments Métailié for stimulating discussions and for making available his unpublished manuscript on ancient Chinese ...

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i 1 1 1 There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. — Max Beerbohm (1872– 1956) 1 The Quandary Ov ...

2 i Flora Unveiled Among early Christians, flowers inspired a sense of piety and spiritual immanence, embodying the union of the ...

The Quandary Over Plant Sex j 3 3 3 tropical rainforest, vibrant with beating life. A large color poster made it abundantly clea ...

4 i Flora Unveiled prevailed, along with its famous epicycles. It wasn’t until the fifteenth century that Copernicus proposed th ...

The Quandary Over Plant Sex j 5 5 5 in the trade journal Infant’s Department (later renamed Earnshaw’s) provided the following r ...

6 i Flora Unveiled female contributes gross matter to the growing embryo, he maintains that the male semen contributes the all- ...

The Quandary Over Plant Sex j 7 7 7 Despite isolated advances, however, the one- sex model remained the dominant paradigm in med ...