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John L. Harper

(27 May 1925 - )

British botanist and ecologist.

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The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory—founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted by and brought up by the science of genetics, and ecologists, being modest people, are apt to forget their distinguished parenthood.

— John L. Harper

'A Darwinian Approach to Plant Ecology', Journal of Ecology, 1967, 55, 247.

See also: | Ecology (11) | Evolution (237) | Genetics (64) | Natural Selection (46)

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