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...work proved challenging because many of the plants described by Thoreau, a Harvard alum, have been renamed or regrouped over the past century, according to graduate student Brad R. Ruhfel. But when Davis suggested cutting Thoreau’s data, Primack was in firm opposition to the idea...
Interestingly, the researchers’ botanical work has become associated with hot-button issues like climate change and historical figures like Thoreau, according to Ruhfel...
...Together with his graduate students, Charlie G. Willis and Brad R. Ruhfel, Davis compiled an evolutionary tree of the entire community of flora that had existed in the Concord area in the mid-19th century...
...Ruhfel, the other graduate student, noted that the exceptionally long span of the Walden Pond data is what allowed them to reach such striking conclusions...
...While Ruhfel acknowledged that Thoreau’s historical stature has contributed to the public reaction to their work, he maintains that the scientific merit of the study does not depend on the origin of the data...
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