Would you buy a tomato from this man? How to overcome public mistrust in scientific advances.

post-glacial recolonization in European and other habitats, a process that emanated from various southern refugia and that often involved crosses among conspecific populations in hybrid zones (Hewitt, 2000). But if there are no field biologists who know their flora and fauna, geneticists will neither have material to work on, nor will they know the biology of the organisms they are studying. In this sense, there is a natural predisposition towards a symbiosis between genetics and biodiversity—a union that current progress in DNA technology is forging.