Definitely not obvious. I have no idea how complex "woodiness" is, evolutionarily. It's like if you asked me "don’t you feel that it’s obvious that different li

Definitely not obvious. I have no idea how complex "woodiness" is, evolutionarily. It's like if you asked me "don’t you feel that it’s obvious that different lineages of animals could acquire, and lose, feathers independently of each other": probability is certainly non-zero but is it negligible or is it actually likely? No idea, I'm not an evolutionary biologist, and would read an article about it with interest