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And in this video you would witness how trees became the dominant lifeform on Earth and have remained as such ever since.
by Mirioron 7y ago
And in this video you would witness how trees became the dominant lifeform on Earth and have remained as such ever since.
- dredmorbius 7y agoOr algae and plankton. Regards plant life generally, one rather stunning realisation for me is how recent many of the now-dominant forms are. Grass is younger than the dinosaurs. Flowering plants evolved during their reign. The major crops of the world (wheat, maize, rice) are all largely human-engineered, through artificial selection over the past few thousand years. There's a lot of competition in the primary-producer niche.