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  • What must have happened is that a few seeds of small herbs or shrubs chanced across the thousandmile gap from Africa, settled on St Helena and, because the niche of forest trees was unfilled, evolved larger and more woody trunks until they became proper trees.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • What must have happened is that a few seeds of small herbs or shrubs chanced across the thousandmile gap from Africa, settled on St Helena and, because the niche of forest trees was unfilled, evolved larger and more woody trunks until they became proper trees.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

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