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Verne Edwin Grant (1917-2007) was an American botanist and writer.〔("Verne Edwin Grant (1917-2007)" ). JSTOR.〕 Grant was born in San Francisco, California. In 1940 he received his BA in Botany and in 1949 his PhD in Botany and Genetics from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the Professor of Botany for the University of Texas at Austin from 1970 to 1987.〔("Verne Grant" ). ASPT Newsletter 21(1): 3-4. 2007.〕 His book ''The Origins of Adaptations'' (1963) was an early text that discussed the main themes of the modern evolutionary synthesis such as genetic drift, modes of speciation, natural selection and population genetics.〔Sapp, Jan. (2009). ''The New Foundations of Evolution: On the Tree of Life: On the Tree of Life''. Oxford University Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-19-538849-7〕 However, Grant did not describe these mechanisms of evolution as "Neo-Darwinism" or the synthetic theory, instead he referred to these mechanisms as the "causal theory." The book was awarded the 1964 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.〔Simpson, George Gaylord. (1965). ''A Fundamental Treatise. The Origin of Adaptations by Verne Grant''. ''The American Scholar''. Vol. 34, No. 3. pp. 500-502.〕 Systematic botanist Áskell Löve in a review for the book wrote that "Grant has succeeded in writing a text that is likely to affect the thinking in this field for decades to come and also to be regarded by students as one of the most informative texts on the subject ever written."〔Löve, Áskell. (1965). ''The Origin of Adaptations by Verne Grant''. ''Taxon''. Vol. 14, No. 6. p. 202.〕 ==Publications== *''The Origins of Adaptations'' (1963) *''The Architecture of the Germplasm'' (1964) *''Plant Speciation'' (1971) *''Genetics of Flowering Plants'' (1975) *''Organismic Evolution'' (1977) *''The Evolutionary Process: A Critical Review of Evolutionary Theory'' (1985) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Verne Grant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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