Follow your favourite podcasts, listen offline and in the car with CarPlay and Android Auto, and always pick up where you left off. Free to try.
Check out American Veteran on @pbsvoices ►► https://youtu.be/P8bt1bwllZg We’re on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓Uploaded 06-11-21The biggest thing that has ever lived on Earth… is a tree? Hard to believe, but it’s true. Travel with me to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to go inside a giant aspen clone, the most massive species on our planet, and learn what unique and special evolutionary adaptations let them get so big. Thanks to Dr. Jeffry B. Mitton (UC-Boulder) for sharing his years of research into giant quaking aspens and for telling us where to go see such pretty fall colorsReferences:Mitton, J. B. and Grant, M. C. Observations on the Ecology and Evolution of Quaking Aspen, Populus tremuloides, in the Colorado Front Range. 9 (2021).Mitton, J. B. and Grant, M. C. Genetic Variation and the Natural History of Quaking Aspen. BioScience 46, 25–31 (1996).Grant, M. C., Mitton, J. B. and Linhart, Yan. B. Even larger organisms. Nature 360, 216–216 (1992).-----------Special thanks to our Brain Trust Patrons:Barbora BeiKen BoardT ClingerAttila PixBurt HumburgDeliciousKashmiriBrian ChangRoy Lasrisdani bowmanDavid JohnstonSalih ArslanBaerbel WinklerRobert YoungAmy SowadaEric MeerDustinKaren HaskellAlecZeroJoin us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/itsokaytobesmartTwitter http://www.twitter.com/DrJoeHansonhttp://www.twitter.com/okaytobesmart Instagram http://www.instagram.com/DrJoeHanson http://www.instagram.com/okaytobesmart Merchhttps://store.dftba.com/collections/its-okay-to-be-smartFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/itsokaytobesmartpbs/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
