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[Book Review] The socially savvy tree

ScienceNOW - Fetched: September 15th, 2016, 4:00pm UTC

Who has not looked at a tree, outwardly static yet clearly full of activity, and wished for a translator to help us better understand its inner life? German forester Peter Wohlleben seeks to fill that role in his new book, The Hidden Life of Trees, which last year became a surprise best seller in Germany and is now being released in English. Trees, Wohlleben argues, are intelligent and community minded and—this being the digital age—socially networked. Author: Gabriel Popkin

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