Amazing Technicolor Dreamtree (Rocky Mountain Juniper)

Completely Arbortrary

English - February 24, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.1K ratings
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The Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum), like nearly all junipers, is a conifer that took a different strategy to get its seeds dispersed. This week we chat about convergent evolution, and how nature can find the same solutions to problems in very different ways.

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Cover art by Jillian Barthold

Music by Aves and The Mini-Vandals

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