The Age of SeedsPlants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds, they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a 2000 year old extinct date palm seed was discovered, no one expected it to still be alive. But it sprouted a healthy young date palm. That seeds produced millennia ago could still be viable today suggests seeds are capable of extreme lifespans. Yet many seeds,