11 Dec
2009

Eventhough Charles Darwin is most well-known for his book On the Origin of Species, in which he described the process of natural selection, he greatly contributed to a number of specific fields within biology. As the bicentennial anniversary of Darwin's birth comes to a close, the recent issue of the American Journal of Botany presents two papers exploring botanical history before the time of Darwin, Darwin's contributions to botany, and what researchers have discovered in the subsequent years following Darwin's first presentation of his a number of provocative ideas to the scientific community........