Episode
Mingzhen Lu on The Evolution of Root Systems & Biogeochemical Cycling
COMPLEXITY · Mar 26, 2022 · 54 min
As fictional Santa Fe Institute chaos mathematician Ian Malcolm famously put it, “Life finds a way” — and this is perhaps nowhere better demonstrated than by roots: seeking out every opportunity, improving in their ability to access and harness nutrients as they’ve evolved over the last 400 million years. Roots also exemplify another maxim for living systems: “What doesn’t kill you makes you…