Quote of the day
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first. This in no sense, however, implies that great men are not needed. On the contrary, the first object of any good system must be that of developing first-class men
G. Ledyard Stebbins
Born: January 6, 1906
Died: January 19, 2000 (aged 94)
Bio: George Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. was an American botanist and geneticist who is widely regarded as one of the leading evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. Stebbins received his Ph.D. in botany from Harvard University in 1931.
Known for:
- Variation and Evolution in Plants (1950)
- The basis of progressive evolution (1969)
- Chromosomal evolution in higher plants (1971)