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Stefano Mancuso
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TEDGlobal 2010

The roots of plant intelligence

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Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence.

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TEDGlobal 2010 | July 2010

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