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Associate Professor Greg Jordan is a research/teaching academic at the University of Tasmania, in the School of Biological Sciences in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology. For the last 25 years he has been using evidence from fossils, geographic distributions, ecology, phylogeny and physiology to study plant evolution and biogeography, especially of the southern hemisphere.