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Monica Fahey, Adjunct Fellow in molecular ecology, Macquarie University

Walking the trees: we traced how First Nations groups moved bunya pine and black bean trees

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For millennia, Indigenous knowledge holders have passed down lore to the next generation. Much lore describes the relationships between people and Country, including custodial responsibilities to care for other species as kin.

Each species carries a history of movement and change in its DNA. By quantifying how related one individual of a species is to another, evolutionary ecologists can infer how a species migrated in the deep past.

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