“How do you summarize a book that traverses every continent, plumbs the depths of human and paleontological history and skims both the ocean waves and the dead silence of outer space? “The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History” (Basic Books, $26.99), does just that, tracing the journey of seeds and making a case that the world as we know it is saturated with, and impossible without, seeds.”
Read more here: How Seeds Have Been Vital to World History
