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Humans and Trees: A Shared History
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Trees have been around much, much longer than people have.
The first real species of tree was called Archaeopteris, and it evolved approximately 370 million years ago. Over many years, other species of tree followed. At one point, before the continents broke apart, almost all of the earth’s land mass was covered by trees. Trees helped encourage the evolution of new and more complex species of animals, by changing oxygen into carbon dioxide and by forming new habitats that encouraged the growth of biodiversity.
It’s no wonder, then, that trees have played such a vital role in the human imagination. Trees can live much longer than humans-they are taller than us, and seem older and sometimes wiser than us. (more…)
Tags: archaeopteris, carbon, Forest, oxygen, Tree, yggdrasil
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