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George Ledyard Stebbins Jr. (January 6, 1906 – January 19, 2000) was an American botanist and geneticist who is widely regarded as one of the leading evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. Stebbins received his Ph.D. in botany from Harvard University in 1931.
6 apr 2000 · George Ledyard Stebbins, whose synthesis of genetics and evolutionary theory from the plant world was central to formulating the modern synthesis of evolution, died on 19 January at the age of...
- Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
- bsmocovi@history.ufl.edu
- 2000
1 mag 2009 · Anyone interested in plant evolutionary biology is inevitably drawn to the work and writings of G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906–2000), the “botanical architect” of the neo-Darwinian synthesis (Mayr and Provine 1980).
9 apr 2024 · George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. was an American botanist and geneticist known for his application of the modern synthetic theory of evolution to plants. Called the father of evolutionary botany, he was the first scientist to synthesize artificially a species of plant that was capable of thriving under.
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G. Ledyard Stebbins. Department of Genetics, University of California, Davis. Verified email at email.arizona.edu. Polyploidy Hybridization Speciation Plant Evolution. Articles 1–20....
G. Ledyard Stebbins led a life full of passion for botany, for evolution, for teaching. This Colloquium illustrates how successful he was in transmitting that passion to others.
GEORGE LEDYARD STEBBINS’S most important scientific contribution was the publication in 1950 of Variation and Evolution in Plants, the last of a quartet of classic books that in the second quarter of the twentieth century set forth what became known as the synthetic theory of evolution or the modem synthesis.
