Botany, Genetics and the Evolutionary Synthesis (1924-1974): The Scientific Career of G. Ledyard Stebbins Jr

植物学、遗传学和进化综合（1924-1974）：G. Ledyard Stebbins Jr 的科学生涯

• 批准号: 9811093
• 负责人: Vassiliki Smocovitis
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-01 至 1999-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9811093&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Botany; Genetics; Evolutionary; Synthesis; 1924

This proposal examines the history of botany in the U.S. during the period before, during and immediately after the evolutionary synthesis. It is organized around the scientific career of G. Ledyard Stebbins, Jr., one of the nation's foremost botanists, geneticists and evolutionists. Much of what is known about the evolutionary synthesis has taken the perspective of zoology, and has examined the contributions of zoologists. Little is known of the work of botanists and how they contributed to our understanding of evolutionary processes. Even less is known about the history of botany in the U.S. during the middle decades of this century, a period that saw unsurpassed growth in science and a vast restructuring of the plant sciences. The main goals of this project are to assess the contributions of key botanists to the evolutionary synthesis, to redress the imbalance in the historiography of the synthesis, which favors animal models over plant research, and to understand an important period in U.S. botany. The project will culminate in a scholarly book and three articles, one of which will appear in a volume of scientific papers of Stebbins that the PI will jointly edit.

该提案考察了美国植物学在进化综合之前、期间和之后的历史。 它是围绕美国最重要的植物学家、遗传学家和进化论者之一 G. Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. 的科学生涯而组织的。 关于进化综合的许多已知知识都是从动物学的角度出发，并检验了动物学家的贡献。 人们对植物学家的工作以及他们如何为我们理解进化过程做出了贡献知之甚少。 人们对本世纪中叶几十年美国植物学的历史知之甚少，这段时期科学取得了无与伦比的发展，植物科学也经历了巨大的重组。 该项目的主要目标是评估主要植物学家对进化综合的贡献，纠正综合史学中的不平衡（这种情况有利于动物模型而不是植物研究），并了解美国植物学的一个重要时期。 该项目将最终出版一本学术书籍和三篇文章，其中一篇将出现在 PI 将共同编辑的斯特宾斯科学论文集中。