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Humans have only been around for 20,000 years or so, I imagine the forests were evolving fine before them.
by zeristor 8y ago
Humans have only been around for 20,000 years or so, I imagine the forests were evolving fine before them.
- jaggederest 8y agoYou drastically underestimate the rapidity of catastrophe as an evolutionary forcing function. Many or most of the trees in these areas are now not merely tolerant to, but dependent on (apparently anthropogenic) fire in order to reproduce.
- tome 8y agoYou're off by at least a factor of 10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens#Age_and_speciation_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_sapiens#Age_and_speciatio...