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2 unusual facts about Jens Clausen


Jens Clausen

In 1927-1928, Clausen received a Rockefeller scholarship to study at the University of California, Berkeley where he worked on the genetics of the genus Crepis with E. B. Babcock.

With taxonomist David D. Keck and physiologist William Hiesey, he formed the first interdisciplinary effort to combine genetics, ecology and systematics in order to understand the ecological genetics of the evolutionary process in California plants.


David D. Keck

From 1925 to 1950 he was based at the Carnegie Institute of Washington, at Stanford University where he worked on plant species concepts with Jens Clausen and William Hiesey.


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