The Genius of Trees tells the mind-expanding story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world.
Over hundreds of millions of years, from prehistoric forests to the trees around us today, we see trees using fire as a reproductive tool, harnessing large mammals to spread their seeds (but poisoning smaller, less useful mammals), and splitting rock to create fertile ground in barren landscapes.
Because trees, we discover, manipulate fundamental elements, plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and even humankind to achieve their ends. From the laurel cloud-forests of the Canary Islands to the magnificent sex-shifting oaks of Iraq, from the giant sequoias of California to the carbon-spinning junipers of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border - trees sculpt their environments.
At once transporting and expert, The Genius of Trees gives us hope for the future. It enables us to see trees, for the first time, not as victims but as agents of change in a grand ecological narrative - and as leading actors in the great drama of life on earth.
| ISBN: | 9781529921267 |
| Publication date: | 19th March 2026 |
| Author: | Harriet Rix |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Primary Genre | Popular Science |
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The Genius of Trees tells the mind-expanding story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world.Over hundreds of millions of years, from prehistoric forests to the trees around us today, we see trees using fire as a reproductive tool, harnessing large mammals to spread their seeds (but poisoning smaller, less useful mammals), and splitting rock to create fertile ground in barren landscapes.Because trees, we discover, manipulate fundamental elements, plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and even humankind to achieve their ends. From the laurel cloud-forests of the Canary Islands to the magnificent sex-shifting oaks of Iraq, from the giant sequoias of California to the carbon-spinning junipers of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border - trees sculpt their environments.At once transporting and expert, The Genius of Trees gives us hope for the future.
The Genius of Trees features in the following genres: Nature and the natural world: general interest, Popular Science, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Biochemistry, Biogeography, The environment, Earth sciences
Paperback, Hardback. £11.69, down from the £12.99 cover price. In Stock.
The Genius of Trees was written by Harriet Rix and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
The Genius of Trees has 320 pages
£11.69, reduced from £12.99. In Stock.
