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Plants are intelligent too
Author(s) -
Trewavas Anthony J
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2012.118
Subject(s) - feeling , argument (complex analysis) , instinct , sociology , cognitive science , psychoanalysis , psychology , biology , philosophy , epistemology , ecology , biochemistry
Whilst welcoming Ken Richardson's argument that intelligent behaviour is present in all organisms [[1]], I draw attention to several omissions. First, many researchers have commented on the ubiquity of intelligent behaviour in the animal world. Commenting on protozoan behaviour, Alfred Binet, the creator of the first IQ test, wrote that “we find manifestations of an intelligence which greatly transcends the phenomenon of cellular irritability” [[2]]; Romanes stated that …