Fiona McMillan-Webster PhD
THE AGE OF SEEDS
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
was shortlisted for the 2023 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award and won the 2023 Nib People's Choice Prize.
It is published by Thames and Hudson Australia
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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)
