Misha Glenny

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1,430 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2d ago

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In Our Time · The Evolution of Trees · 2 Jul 2026 podcast

Bill, you've done quite a lot of work on palms.

What can you tell us about palms and rainforests?

So what's happening there if the evidence is so contradictory?

Thanks for that clarification, Bill.

We heard from Bill that palms exist in rainforests, or I think it was you, though, that they can't exist in different temperatures.

So what makes some trees resilient and other trees not resilient?

So, Chris Berry, in that case, presumably even resilient trees exist.

would find it difficult to adapt year on year.

So you're looking at tree resilience over millions of years, hundreds of millions of years.

Are you able to say, yes, this tree faded away, but became an oak tree or something like that?

Or do you see hard cutoff points?

When do seeds come in, as it were, for trees?

Bill, why do so many plants end up looking like trees?

Is there something about the tree structure which makes it particularly efficient or...

you know, adaptable?

Jenny, I want to concentrate a bit on what the evolution of trees can tell us about the environment.

Presumably before trees came along, the earth was still pretty hot and humid, I would have thought.

What do trees do to change the environment?

So when trees first start appearing, do they begin to oxygenate the atmosphere?

So does that mean that the methane, for example, that's being released from peat bogs and from permafrost and so on as the earth warms, are those gases which trees originally stored?

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