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Crash Course Botany
The Secret Social Lives of Plants
In this episode, we’ll explore how plants interact one-on-one and in diverse groups.
How Did Plants Evolve?
Over the next 15 episodes, Alexis Nikole Nelson will spill plants’ secrets—how they evolved, how they function, and just how vital they are to human societies and all of life on Earth.
How Did Plants Evolve?
Season 1 Episode 6 | 14m 44s | CC
“You shouldn’t make decisions when you’re hungry.” Tell that to the cell that ate a bacterium 1.5 billion years ago and set in motion the evolution of all plants on Earth. In this episode of Crash Course Botany, we’ll explore how plants came to exist, the forces that drive plant evolution, and how we know what Earth’s prehistoric dystopia was like before plants came along.
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