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The earliest trees 1 Year, 7 Months ago  
For those who are interested in such things, here's a _link_ to an article on the earliest known fossils of trees:
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070416/full/070416-10.html

They were long skinny things with branches all at the top - would have looked a bit like palm trees - and they grew about 360 million years ago last Thursday.

Looks like girth-hitch climbing to me...
 
 
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1 Year, 7 Months ago  
That's a neat article... I've seen that stump and touched it! I'm doing my MS degree at Binghamton, and I've taken a few classes with Prof. Stein -- quirky guy, but an absolute genius.

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There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.  --Michael Eyquem, seigneur de Montaigne