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Variation and Evolution in Plants

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  • In George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr.

    The publication of his Variation and Evolution in Plants (1950) established Stebbins as one of the first biologists to apply this theory to plant evolution. Working with several species of flowering plants, Stebbins and his coworker, Ernest B. Babcock, studied polyploid plants, which are new species of plants that…

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