[PCA] Plant Blindness - Why don't people see plants?

[Pendergrass, Kathy - Portland, OR]

Animals would have been very important as food sources for us; plus some
of the big animal predators would have been hunting us - thus animals
would have been very important things to take notice of..  I wouldn't
think that plants could trigger the survival centers of our brain like
the animals would.

Cheers,   kathy.......

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[mailto:native-plants-bounces at lists.plantconservation.org] On Behalf Of
Steve Erickson
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCA] Plant Blindness - Why don't people see plants?

At the risk of sticking my foot in it, this seems to me to be
evolutionarily based. In most hunter-gatherer cultures,
hunters (seeking animals) are usually male and gatherers
(seeking mostly plants) are female.
-Steve  

> Our 1998 study of 274 US students drawn from grades 4-7
in a major metropolitan area indicated that: (a) student
interest in animals led plants by approximately a 2:1 margin;
(b) girls were more likely than boys to express an interest in
learning about plants; and (c) of the nearly 300 students we
queried, only about 7% spontaneously expressed a scientific
interest in plants-and of that 7%, about two-thirds were
girls. 
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