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![Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds, they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia.
Yet many seeds, including those crucial to our everyday lives, don’t live very long at all. In the face of a growing population, a changing climate and declining biodiversity, it has never been more important to understand how best to make seed plants last.
In 'The Age of Seeds' fionamcmillanwebster tells the incredible story of seeds and the crucial role they play in the future of our planet.
Available now from your local bookstore or online. See this and more in our Father's Day 2022 Gift Guide at the link in our bio.
Photography by Fiona McMillan-Webster
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