"I didn't add any new elements [to the modern synthetic theory] to speak of. I just modified things so that people could understand how things were in the plant world."
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G.Ledyard Stebbins, January 6, 1906-January 19, 2000. Spring 2000, UC Davis Alumni newsletter
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G. Ledyard Stebbins
George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. (January 6, 1906 – January 19, 2000) was an American biologist, botanist and geneticist regarded as one of the leading evolutionary biologists and foremost botanists of the twentieth century.
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