Variation and Evolution in Plants
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : 55 text figs
Description:
1st UK edition, published in the same year as the US Colombia University Press edition. Based on the Jesup Lectures delivered by Stebbins at Columbia University, 1946. One of the key publications embodying the modern evolutionary synthesis and the first publication to discuss the relationship between genetics and natural selection in plants. Peter H. Raven (1974, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 61) describes this work as 'the most important book on plant evolution of the 20th century'.
Condition
Orig. cloth, lightly rubbed to extremities. Owner's name to endpaper and title-page. Vg.