Seeds, Sex, and Civilization: How the Hidden Life of Plants Has Shaped Our World

by Peter Thompson and Stephen Harris

Seeds have influenced evolution, and for millennia they have influenced and sometimes determined where and how we live. This is an epic tale, given added enchantment by the fact that to most of us seeds mean little more than tiny objects in paper packets: who thinks first of rice, wheat, coffee, nuts, peas, beans, or olives? Here, Peter Thompson unfolds the absorbing history of how, after centuries of investigation, we finally discovered what seeds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500251703
• ISBN13: 9780500251706
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"