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Ep. 360 - Exploring a 4.5 Million Year Old Flora

In Defense of Plants Podcast

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The Evolution of Plants and Animals

When you're looking at animals, i always talk about, you you have bones, you have shells. You're missing a lot of the soft part anatome. With plants, you're often missing a lot too. A lot of it's because they tend to be preserved in pieces. And then some of the structures are also pretty ephemeral. So things like flowers, men, they ocur in the fossil record, but i wouldn't asurly expect to find a flower or gray fossil site,. given the preservation. There's infinitely more leaves and wood and fragments of sticks available than there are flowers.

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