TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pollan,Michael
TI  - The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world 
SN  - 0375760393
AV  - QK 46.5.H85 P66.2002
PY  - 2002///, 2001
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Human-plant relationships
KW  - Relaciones hombre-plantas
KW  - Apples
KW  - Manzanas
KW  - Tulips
KW  - Tulipanes
KW  - Marihuana
KW  - Potatoes
KW  - Patatas
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [247]-256) e índice; Desire--sweetness, plant--the apple (Malus domestica) -- Desire--beauty, plant--the tulip (Tulipa) -- Desire--intoxication, plant--marijuana (Cannabis sativa x indica) -- Desire--control, plant--the potato (Solanum tuberosum)
N2  - Focusing on the human relationship with plants, the author of Second nature uses botany to explore four basic human desires, sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control, through portraits of four plants that embody them, the apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato. Every school child learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers; the bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers' genes far and wide. In The botany of desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. In telling the stories of four familiar species that are deeply woven into the fabric of our lives, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind's most basic yearnings. And just as we've benefited from these plants, the plants have done well by us. So who is really domesticating whom?
ER  -