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THE AGE OF SEEDS

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PLANTS EVOLVED SEEDS TO CAST THEIR GENES FORWARD INTO THE FUTURE

When a 2000-year-old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to be alive.  But it sprouted a healthy young plant.  That seeds produced millennia ago could be viable today suggests they are capable of extreme lifespans. 

In the face of growing population, a changing climate and declining biodiversity, it has never been more important to understand how best to make seed plants last. 

In The Age of Seeds Fiona McMillan-Webster tells the astonishing story of seeds, the crucial role they play in our everyday lives, and what that might mean for our planet.

The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and

Why Our Future Depends on It

is published by Thames and Hudson Australia 

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Amazon Australia

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Avid Reader Australia

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Booktopia Australia

Where to buy....

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Barnes & Noble

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Dymocks
Australia

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Amazon US 

TESTIMONIALS

“The expansive story of one of nature's great miracles - exploring not just the future of a plant, a species or an ecosystem but of our own ongoing survival"

-Danielle Clode

Author of The Wasp and the Orchid

“The sleeping seed has found a powerful voice in this book, transcending history and geography, in a rip-roaring tale of human endeavour to feed, clothe and cure a human population of nearly 8 billion people."

-Paul Smith

Secretary General of Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and former Head of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) 

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