“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.”

— G. Ledyard Stebbins

G.Ledyard Stebbins, January 6, 1906-January 19, 2000. Spring 2000, UC Davis Alumni newsletter http://www.dbs.ucdavis.edu/alumni/newsletter/spring00/stebbins.html

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American botanist and geneticist 1906–2000

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