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What Is the Point of Plants?

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Plants and the History of Life on Earth

In the history of life on earth, so that life begins sometime three point eight, three point nine billion years ago or so, when do we see plants emerge? If we take the whole of the life on earth as a year, then plants move on to land. They didn't quite move, they can'd hof got left behind as the water regress. But plants moved on to land, december seventh, and we showed up at nine p m New year's eve. So this is for at least 11 12 life on earth. The alge in the oceans gets left on the land, and that then specia d evolved into land plants. We wouldn't have been fish if

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