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Annals of Botany 90: 153-154, 2002
© 2002 Annals of Botany Company

Ayala, F.J., Fitch, W.M. and Clegg, M.T. Variation and evolution in plants and microorganisms: toward a new synthesis 50 years after Stebbins

Richard M. Bateman

Variation and evolution in plants and microorganisms: toward a new synthesis 50 years after Stebbins.
Ayala FJ, Fitch WM, Clegg MT, eds. 2000.
Washington, DC: (US) National Academy Press.
£14.95 (softback). xi + 340 pp.

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In January 2000, an impressive cohort of evolutionary biologists convened in Irvine, California, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of G. Ledyard Stebbins’ Variation and evolution in plants. The brief introductory appreciation of Stebbins by Peter Raven describes Variation as ‘the most important book on plant evolution of the 20th century’ (p. 5). This strongly worded claim is not entirely without justification. Among the ‘New Synthesists’, Stebbins achieved for botanists what Theodosius Dobzhansky (later to be a colleague of Stebbins at UC Davis) had previously achieved for geneticists, Ernst Mayr for zoologists and G. G. Simpson for palaeontologists. Admittedly, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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