Botanika antropologa. Kak rasteniya sozdali cheloveka. Tsvetochki-yagodki

V etoy knige avtor uglublyaetsya v mir dvudolnyh rasteniy — ot drevneyshih amborellovyh i kuvshinkovyh do roskoshnyh magnoliy, aromatnyh lavrovyh i raznoobraznyh rozotsvetnyh. Cherez prizmu ih evolyutsii i vzaimodeystviya s chelovekom raskryvayutsya neozhidannye svyazi: kak pryanosti vdohnovlyali velikie geograficheskie otkrytiya, pochemu yadovitye rasteniya stanovilis lekarstvami, kak formy tsvetov i plodov vliyali na kulturu, mifologiyu i dazhe politiku. Vy uznaete: - pochemu perets i koritsa dvigali istoriyu silnee, chem voyny; - kak rasteniya-parazity i muravi-soyuzniki sozdavali udivitelnye ekosistemy; - chto obschego u vinograda, chelovecheskogo gena alkogoldegidrogenazy i tsivilizatsionnyh traditsiy; - kak botanicheskie oshibki stanovilis prichinoy epidemiy, a drevnie rasteniya — simvolami bogov i vlasti. Kniga napisana zhivym, obraznym yazykom, nasyschena istoricheskimi ekskursami, antropologicheskimi nablyudeniyami i tonkim yumorom. Ona budet interesna ne tolko biologam i antropologam, no i vsem, kto hochet uvidet v privychnoy flore — ot lyutikov do durianov — uvlekatelnuyu letopis vzaimnogo vliyaniya prirody i cheloveka.