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Polissar, P.J., Rose, C., Uno, K.T. et al. Reply to: Multiple drivers of Miocene C4 ecosystem expansions. Nat. Geosci. 13, 465–467 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0591-4
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