In a time when we live ever more deeply embedded in the digital ecosystem, Harvard University’s seminar called “Tree” should be a required course for all.
Its lessons are not delivered in a lecture hall, nor is there a hefty, Latin-filled botany textbook to wade through. And despite his impeccable credentials, the professor of record, the evolutionary biologist William Friedman, isn’t the one bestowing the weekly installments of instruction on the students, exactly — at least not in the traditional format.
The trees themselves do much of the teaching. . . .
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