Reid's paradox
Subject in Life Sciences
Reid's paradox has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Stuff You Should Know. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Chuck BryantCo-host of Stuff You Should Know
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
Podcasts
- Stuff You Should Know · 1 episode
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.