Grant, Verne

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GRANT, Verne

GRANT, Verne. American, b. 1917. Genres: Biology, Botany, Zoology. Career: Professor Emeritus of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, 1987- (Professor, 1970-87). Geneticist and Experimental Taxonomist, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, California, 1959-67; Assistant Professor, and subsequently Professor of Botany, Claremont Graduate School, 1952-67; Professor of Biology, Institute of Life Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, 1967-68; Director, Boyce Thompson Southwestern Aboretum, and Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Arizona, Superior, 1968-70. Publications: Natural History of the Phlox Family, 1959; The Origin of Adaptations, 1963; The Architecture of the Germplasm, 1964; (with K. Grant) Flower Pollination in the Phlox Family, 1965; (with K. Grant) Hummingbirds and Their Flowers, 1968; Plant Speciation, 1971, 1981; Genetics of Flowering Plants, 1975; Organismic Evolution, 1977; The Evolutionary Process, 1985, 1991; The Edward Grant Family and Related Families in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and California, 1997. Address: Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, U.S.A.