Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
Swiss botanist (1778–1841)
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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.
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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 cent…
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