I never ever considered that when I wrote this write-up over ten years in the past, the story would go viral. In it I depth, how a Cretaceous shoreline remodeled into fertile “Black Belt” region of the American South, eventually impacting voting styles in South. In this temporary PBS attribute, evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton and I delve into this extraordinary journey.
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