Gray, Asa

1. Entity type Person
2. Birth date 18 November 1810
3. Death date 30 January 1888
4. Gender Name Male
5. Biographical Data

   1. Asa Gray is considered as the Father of American Botany. Gray did accept natural selection as the cause of new species, but he did not believe it to be the only cause of variation, which he considered to be caused by some inherent power imparted in the beginning by divine agency. His widely influential Darwiniana (1876) was considered an important explanation of how religion and science were not necessarily mutually exclusive.

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