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G. Ledyard Stebbins: The perennial plant ''Antennaria pantaginifolia'' is one of the species studied by Stebbins for his doctoral dissertation.
 
 
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Name: George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
Birth Date: January 6, 1906
Death Date: January 19, 2000
Place of Birth: Lawrence, New York, United States
Place of Death: Davis, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: botanist

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Biography of George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.
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Considered the founder of evolutionary botany, George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr., was the first scientist to apply modern synthetic evolutionary theory to the plant kingdom. Stebbins was one of the twentieth-century architects who developed the evolutionary...


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George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. ( January 6 , 1906 – January 19 , 2000 ) was a American and botanist and geneticist regarded as one of the leading evolutionary biologists and foremost botanists of the twentieth century. Sourced I didn't add any new...


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1906-2000 American plant geneticist who created an artificial grass species through induced polyploidy, the presence of two or more sets of chromosomes in an organism. Stebbins studied angiosperm evolution under the context of natural selection,...
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Evolutionist, UC-Davis prof G. Ledyard Stebbins dies at 94
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University Wire 02-01-2000 (The California Aggie) (U-WIRE) DAVIS, Calif. -- University of California- Davis professor G. Ledyard Stebbins - considered the world's leading expert on plant evolution - passed away Wednesday at his Davis home. He was 94. "There's no doubt whatsoever that UC...


 

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