Darwin & evolution
Plant cognition after Darwin’s movement book
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Darwin analogised the root apex to a brain-like sensitive tip, but denied nerves; later authors stretch that into plant minds.
Key findings
Baluška and others call Darwin a breakthrough against passive plants. Darwin himself distinguished irritation from sentience and stressed plants lack nerves. Plant neurobiology is a later, controversial label.
Methodology
Pecere rereads The Power of Movement in Plants against irritation vs sensation debates and contemporary plant-cognition claims.
Limitations
This is historical-epistemological commentary, not new root-cap experiments.
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Darwin analogised the root apex to a brain-like sensitive tip but denied nerves; later authors stretch that into plant minds.
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