The Anthropologist's Botany: How Plants Created Humans. Sticks and Trees

Imagine that all of human history is only a few of the last pages of a huge volume, written by… plants. It is they who formed the atmosphere we breathe, created the ground under our feet, and in many ways determined the climate in which our civilization exists.

This audiobook is an engaging anthropologist-style investigation into how, over millions of years, the human path unfolded in the closest connection with the world of plants—and why without understanding flora it’s impossible to understand ourselves.

After listening, you won’t be able to walk past an ordinary blade of grass indifferently: it will become clear that it—and its “relatives”—are the true masters of the planet. Plants can do without people, but people can’t survive without plants.

And in this book you will:

• see the history of Earth and humankind from an unexpected—“plant-like”—perspective;

• understand how an unnoticed botanical revolution shapes our everyday lives: from what lies on our plates to changes in climate;

• find out whether a banana is really considered a berry (and whether a strawberry isn’t) and how a sloth manages to “cooperate” with algae.