George Ledyard Stebbins Jr. (January 6, 1906 – January 19, 2000) was an American botanist and geneticist who is widely regarded as one of the leading evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. [1] Stebbins received his Ph.D. in botany from Harvard University in 1931.

George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. (born January 6, 1906, Lawrence, New York, U.S.—died January 19, 2000, Davis, California) was an American botanist and geneticist known for his application of the modern synthetic theory of evolution to plants.

Stebbins was an accomplished synthesizer of biological knowledge (Smocovitis, 1997). Throughout the decades he wrote numerous review articles. He was considered a master of this genre (Crawford and Smocovitis, 2004). Stebbins was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1952.

2023年1月6日 · George Ledyard Stebbins, an American botanist, was born Jan. 6, 1906. Stebbins was one of the architects of modern evolutionary theory, often called the Modern Synthesis, a construct...

Stebbins was believed to be the last surviving, founding member of the group in the Bay Area (of San Francisco) that came to be known as the Biosystematists. George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. was born January 6, 1906, in Lawrence, New York.

2000年4月6日 · George Ledyard Stebbins, whose synthesis of genetics and evolutionary theory from the plant world was central to formulating the modern synthesis of evolution, died on 19 January at the age of 94.

George Ledyard Stebbins has been called the father of evolutionary botany. A botanist, geneticist and one of the leading evolutionary biologists of his era, Stebbins wrote one of the core manuals of modern evolutionary synthesis.