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    It’s Not Romantic Anymore to Say That Plants Have Brain-like Systems

    by Brian Gallagher Jun 12, 2017 4 minutes

    Last week, researchers found, in the dormant seeds of the small rockcress plant Arabidopsis, a “decision-making center” that they believe resembles “some systems within the human brain.”Photograph by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center / Flickr

    ast month, when the mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, presided over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, he gave a speech that would go . In it, he rebuked the South’s long-nurtured tendency—expressed in slogans like, —to romanticize the Confederacy. “We shouldn’t romanticize Confederate monuments,” read a recent to . “The romantics may say that the average Confederate didn’t own slaves. But like most people, they

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