ACADEMICIAN ARMEN TAKHTADJANAND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
The article offers an analysis of the contribution made by A.L. Takhtajan, one of the foremost botanists, to the evolutionary theory. Armen Takhtajan’ ideas about the importance of neoteny and macro-mutations in plant evolution run ahead of the time when gradualism dominated in science. They played a key role in developing of a broader approach to evolution compared to that inherent in the synthetic evolutionary theory.