A 16-Million-Year-Old Tree Tells A Deep Story Of The Passage Of Time
If a long human life is about 80 years, Wing says, then people can count 80, 160, and 240 years, meaning the sequoia grew and thrived over the course of approximately three human lifespans—but during a time when our own ancestors resembled gibbon-like apes. In everything—from the rings of an ancient tree to the very bones in your body—time is part of life. “Time is so vast,” Wing says, “that this giant slab of a tree is just scratching the surface.”
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