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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. Back in the 70s there were these

questionable experiments that claimed to prove that plants could behave like humans,

that they had feelings or could respond to music,

or even take a polygraph test.

Now, most of those claims have since been debunked,

but a new wave of research suggests that plants are indeed intelligent,

in complex ways that challenge our very understanding of agency and consciousness.

That's the subject of a new book written by climate journalist Zoe Schlinger, called The Light Eaters,

how the unseen world of plant intelligence offers a new understanding of life on Earth.

In the book, Schlinger explores how plants do indeed communicate with each other,

see and recognize other plants, store memories, and even learn.

Schlinger traveled around the world to explore the work of botanical researchers

to understand the debate among them on how to interpret the latest findings which are

sometimes at odds with our conception of what a plant actually is. Zoe Slinger is Sometimes at the

the odds with our conception of what a plant actually is.

Zoe Schlinger is a staff reporter at the Atlantic,

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