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A newly published study in Current Biology is reframing a fundamental question in plant evolution: What made trees possible? Researchers from Cal Poly Humboldt, Yale University, the University of ...

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The Inquirer’s Erin McCarthy takes a deep dive into why malls like Granite Run proliferated and then changed over the years.