The Loves of the Plants
The Loves of the Plants
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对植物的热爱
DOI：
10.1038/scientificamerican0296-110
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发表时间：
1996
影响因子：
3
通讯作者：
L. Schiebinger
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作者：
L. Schiebinger
版权所有1996 Scientific American，Inc.已知植物的产量翻了两番。植物学家们被引导去寻找新的方法来组织这些大量的新标本。当他们寻求普遍适用的简单原则时，重点从植物的医学用途转移到纯分类学的更一般和理论问题。当植物的性行为突然出现时，人们对赋予植物性的兴趣超出了对植物受精的理解，或者说，有时被称为蔬菜的交媾。英国博物学家尼希米·格鲁（Nehemiah Grew）从他对动物的了解中发展了他的植物性理论，他在1682年的论文《植物的性器官》（The
Copyright 1996 Scientific American, Inc. ber of known plants quadrupled. Botanists were led to search for new methods of organizing this multitude of new specimens. As they sought simple principles that would hold universally, emphasis shifted from the medical uses of plants to more general and theoretical issues of pure taxonomy. When plant sexuality exploded onto the scene, interest in assigning sex to plants outran understanding of botanical fertilization, or the… coitus of vegetables, as it was sometimes called. The English naturalist Nehemiah Grew, who developed his theory of plant sexuality from his knowledge of animals,‘rst identi ‘ed the stamen as the male organ in’owers in his 1682 treatise, The