# Augustin Pyramus de Candolle

> He coined "Nature's war" — the phrase that nudged Darwin toward natural selection — and spotted convergent evolution decades before it had a name. A Swiss botanist who also noticed plants keeping time in the dark, hinting at biological clocks no one believed in until a century later.

*Swiss botanist (1778–1841)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Born:** 1778-02-04
- **Died:** 1841-09-09
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Augustin Pyramus de Candolle entered botany through a herbarium recommendation from René Louiche Desfontaines. Within two years he'd established a new genus, then went on to document hundreds of plant families and build a new natural classification system. While cataloging, he recognized that unrelated species could independently develop similar traits — convergent evolution, though he had no term for it. He also observed that plant leaves moved on a near-24-hour cycle even in constant light, evidence of an internal clock that scientists dismissed until experiments proved him right over a century later. His son Alphonse and grandson Casimir carried the work forward, continuing the Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis he'd begun. He died 9 September 1841.

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## Topics
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