Wouldn't this occur naturally if trees were "programmed" to have a mast year every N years? Sure, some trees wouldn't be synchronized at first, but the likeliho

Wouldn't this occur naturally if trees were "programmed" to have a mast year every N years? Sure, some trees wouldn't be synchronized at first, but the likelihood of propagation is proportional to the number of other trees sharing a mast year, so eventually groups of trees that were synchronized would emerge.