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[Unedited] Robin Wall Kimmerer with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Evolution of Mosses

Mosses have in the ecological sense very low competitive ability because they're small. Other plants are excluded from those spaces, but they thrive there. Mosses build soil, they purify water,. They make homes for this myriad of all these very cool little invertebrates who live in there. And yet they're only a centimeter tall. It really brings into question the whole premise that competition is what really structures biological evolution and biological success.

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