Orden leon croizat biography

Leon Camille Marius Croizat (July 16, 1894 - November 30, 1982) was a French-Italian scholar and botanist who developed a synthesis of evolution of biological form over space, in time, which he named Panbiogeography.

Life

Croizat was the son of French parents, and was born in Torino, Italy, where he studied Law, in spite of his great aptitude for the natural sciences. After obtaining his degree, he concentrated on the sciences, specializing in botany and zoology, studying important aspects of the distribution and evolution of biological species. In fact, he generated a novel current of thought, opposed in some respects to Darwinism, on the evolution and dispersal of biota over space, through time. Between 1936 and 1946, he lived in the United States, where he worked as a technical assistant invited by Dr E. D. Merrill, director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.