an aside.......
it is widely believed that the opportunities
for extremely rapid growth in
such widely-scattered forest clearings
was the evolutionary context in which took place
the rise of the Angiosperms
during the Cretaceous
Angiosperms are capable of
great growth competition and they
eventually displaced gymnosperms from the
canopy of most forest systems.
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