The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It by Fiona McMillan-Webster
The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It
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Fiona McMillan-Webster
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The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on It

Fiona McMillan-Webster

320 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction nature hopeful informative medium-paced
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Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no on...

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