The Genius of Trees : How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world, Harriet Rix

The Genius of Trees : How trees mastered the elements and shaped the world, Harriet RixNew Hardback The Genius of Trees tells the mind expanding global story of the inventive and astonishing ways trees learned to shape our natural world. Over hundreds of millions of years, from prehistoric forests to the trees around us today, we see trees using fire as a reproductive tool, harnessing large mammals to spread their seeds (but poisoning smaller, less useful mammals), and splitting rock to create fertile ground in barren landscapes.

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