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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

True wood? Wood was reinvented multiple times.

[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

isn't it all just the same genes responsible for wood-making, getting switched on and off repeatedly?

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)

Also, at least with germans coal deposits, they exists because bacteria/fungus first needed a few million years to learn to digest lignin.

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