Sunday, December 16, 2018

Kralendijk, Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands

How do those mangrove branches know enough to grow toward the sun? Innate intelligence called phototropism. How do those mangrove roots know enough to grow into the mud? Innate intelligence called geotropism. But what is responsible for such innate intelligence? A hormone called auxin. If you had no brains, your hormones might take over, too! [2017]

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