2001/12/01 by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis · 2 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Plant and animal studies #History of Science and Natural History #Botanical Studies and Applications
paper · doi:10.1146/annurev.genet.35.102401.091525
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More than any other individual, Stebbins synthesized knowledge from a disparate set of areas that included plant genetics, systematics, and evolution. This work culminated in 1950 with the appearance of his magnum opus, Variation and Evolution in Plants. This book gave plant evolution a coherent framework that was compatible with that emerging from the work of Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, G. G. Simpson, and Julian Huxley, and others associated with establishing the synthetic theory of evolution. For this work he is regarded as the botanical "architect" of the evolutionary synthesis.