Modern Synthesis
The Modern Synthesis describes the fusion (merger) of Mendelian genetics with Darwinian evolution that resulted in a unified theory of evolution. It is sometimes referred to as the Ne...
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The Modern Synthesis of Evolutionary Theory
Overview
During the 1930s and 1940s a group of biologists and scientists in a variety of related fields assembled a new picture of biological change, mutati...
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Philosophy of Genetics: Neo-Darwinism and the Modern Synthesis
Neo-Darwinism is an attempt to reconcile gradual evolution by means of natural selection ("survival of the fittest") as proposed by Rober...
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Modern Synthesis
The Modern Synthesis of Evolutionary Theory
Philosophy of Genetics: Neo-Darwinism and the Modern Synthesis
