What Chuck Bryant has said about Reid's paradox
1 quote · 1 episode · Jul 25, 2026
Chuck Bryant, Co-host of Stuff You Should Know, has been quoted on Reid's paradox once in 1 episode of Stuff You Should Know, most recently on July 25, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Bryant explained that oaks in the British Isles traveled about 600 miles in roughly 10,000 years, a distance that ordinary dispersal would take about a million years to cover.
“They traveled about 600 miles and it would normally take about a million years to If the seeds were just dispersed in a typical way”
Stuff You Should Know: Selects: Plant Migration (Jul 25, 2026) · Listen from 8:29
Episodes
Selects: Plant MigrationStuff You Should Know · Jul 25, 2026 · 46 min
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant explain how plants migrate, why climate change is outpacing them, and the debate over human-assisted migration of trees.
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