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

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G.小莱德亚德·斯特宾斯美国最重要的植物学家遗传学家和进化论家之一 关于进化综合的大部分知识都是从动物学的角度来研究的，并考察了动物学家的贡献。 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贡献知之甚少。 在本世纪中期的几十年里，人们对美国植物学的历史所知更少，这一时期的科学发展无与伦比，植物科学也发生了巨大的重组。 该项目的主要目标是评估关键植物学家对进化综合的贡献，纠正综合史学中的不平衡，这有利于动物模型而不是植物研究，并了解美国植物学的重要时期。 该项目将最终在一本学术书籍和三篇文章，其中之一将出现在一卷科学论文的斯特宾斯，PI将共同编辑。

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.