Ned Friedman - Why are so many trees in eastern North America so closely related to the trees of eastern Asia? 

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Flower of Liriodendron tulipifera x chinense, a sexually-formed hybrid between Chinese and the American tulip trees.

December 14: Ned Friedman - Why are so many trees in eastern North America so closely related to the trees of eastern Asia? 

More than a century and a half ago the sleuthing team of Charles Darwin and Harvard’s Asa Gray figured out why many tree species in eastern North America are most closely related to tree species of eastern Asia. Their answers became an important part of the case for evolution in On the Origin of Species.

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