By G. Ledyard Stebbins (auth.), Leslie D. Gottlieb, Subodh K. Jain (eds.)
There are nonetheless heroes in technology. they're famous as the matters and difficulties they selected to check grew to become the problems and difficulties of a big box of study. also they are famous simply because their insights and strategies are those which are proven and evaluated while new rules and applied sciences develop into to be had. within the box of plant evolutionary biology, the hero is George Ledyard Stebbins. His first clinical publi cation seemed in 1929 and has been by means of approximately 60 significant years of seminal rules, proofs, and recommendations that outlined a lot of what was once worthy doing in plant biosystematics, evolution and organic conser vation. His strength, enthusiasm and solid humor (widely shared at many congresses and symposia within the 'Singalongs with Stebbins') made him a superb instructor for either undergraduates and graduate scholars. he's the mentor of a number of generations of botanists, plant geneticists and evo lutionists. a quick biography and e-book record have been integrated in subject matters in Plant inhabitants Biology, edited via Otto T. Solbrig, Subodh Jain, George Johnson and Peter Raven (Columbia college Press, 1979) which resulted from a symposium hung on the party of Ledyard Stebbins' seventieth birthday. during this quantity, inhabitants biology and physio logical ecology got significant awareness quite on the subject of plant shape and function.
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