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RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
Apparent intermediates between Eucalyptus amygdalina and E. pulchella occur well outside the recognized range of the latter species. Progenies of these isolated intermediates were grown in uniform conditions with progenies of trees of E. pulchella, E. amygdaline and apparent hybrids between these two species that are found where they occur parapatrically. The isolated intermediate population proved identical with E. amygdalina in seedling characteristics, while the parapatric intermediates were more variable than the other populations, this variability probably being partly the result of hybridization between E. amygdalina and either E. tenuiramis or E. risdonii. The allopatric intermediate population is more likely to have resulted from convergence of E. amygdalina in the direction of E. pulchella than from phantom hybridity or long distance gene migration.
convergent evolution, Eucalyptus, gene dispersal, phantom hybrids Royal Society of Tasmania, RST, Van Diemens Land, natural history, science, ecology, taxonomy, botany, zoology, geology, geography, papers & proceedings, Australia, UTAS Library
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The Royal Society of Tasmania acknowledges, with deep respect, the traditional owners of this land, and the ongoing custodianship of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The Society pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples have survived severe and unjust impacts resulting from invasion and dispossession of their Country. As an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, the Royal Society of Tasmania recognises Aboriginal cultural knowledge and practices and seeks to respect and honour these traditions and the deep understanding they represent.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal Apology to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
