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I wish I could mod your comment up 1000 times. That small detail about the Carboniferous Period is something nobody has told me before, which makes me wonder h
by Theodores 7y ago
I wish I could mod your comment up 1000 times.
That small detail about the Carboniferous Period is something nobody has told me before, which makes me wonder how many people in this debate know their subject.
- nkurz 7y agoFrom what I can tell, the "trees came before tree-eating-fungi" theory is discredited: Popular press: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/why-was-most-of-the-earths-coal-made-all-at-once/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/why-was-most-of-the-... Full paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/9/2442 https://www.pnas.org/content/113/9/2442 Contextual overview: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/9/2334 https://www.pnas.org/content/113/9/2334