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    The modern synthesis was the early 20th-century synthesis of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and Gregor Mendel's ideas on heredity into a joint mathematical...
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  • Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, a popularising 1942 book by Julian Huxley (grandson of T.H. Huxley), set out his vision of the modern synthesis of evolutionary...
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  • Modern synthesis or modern evolutionary synthesis refers to several perspectives on evolutionary biology, namely: Modern synthesis (20th century), the...
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  • conserved genes. The modern synthesis was the widely accepted early-20th-century synthesis reconciling Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection...
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  • fiction novel by Stephen Baxter Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, 1942 popular science book by Julian Huxley Evolution: The Story of Life, 2009 non-fiction...
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  • in the founding of population genetics and the modern synthesis. It contains the following chapters: Introduction Variation within a Species The Genetical...
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    Julian Huxley (category Modern synthesis (20th century))
    leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first director of...
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    Weismann's theories of evolution) or 1942 ("modern synthesis"), but it can mean any new Darwinian- and Mendelian-based theory, such as the current evolutionary...
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  • modes of evolution Shifting balance theory Sympatric speciation Gould, S. J. (1980). "G. G. Simpson, Paleontology and the Modern Synthesis." In E. Mayr...
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  • theory of evolution with natural selection and Mendel's findings on heredity Modern Synthesis, a 2016 album by English rock band Area 11 Synthesis (disambiguation)...
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    in the modern evolutionary synthesis. These include speciation, the evolution of sexual reproduction, the evolution of cooperation, the evolution of ageing...
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    Genes in ecology: the 33rd Symposium of the British Ecological Society. Blackwell, Oxford. Huxley J. 1942. Evolution: the modern synthesis (2nd ed 1963, 3rd...
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  • Moral Minds. Jay Hosler (2011). Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth. Julian Huxley (1942). Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. Thomas Henry Huxley (1863)....
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  • Julian (1974). Evolution: the modern synthesis. Allen and Unwin. ISBN 9780045750184. Koonin, Eugene V. (23 June 2011). The Logic of Chance: The Nature and...
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    Germ-Plasm, a theory of heredity (1893) Huxley, Julian (1942). Evolution, the Modern Synthesis. p. 17. JSTOR 4331686. For example, by studies of polytene...
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    resulting in a widely applicable theory of evolution that encompassed much of biology—the modern synthesis. Following the establishment of evolutionary biology...
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  • Huxley used the phrase "the eclipse of Darwinism" to describe the state of affairs prior to what he called the "modern synthesis". During the "eclipse"...
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  • only be understood in relation to the total biology of the species. — Julian Huxley, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis Adaptation is primarily a process...
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    Ecotypes". Botany online: Evolution: The Modern Synthesis - Phenotypic and Genetic Variation; Ecotypes. Archived from the original on 2009-06-18. Retrieved...
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    genetics with Darwinian evolution are called the modern synthesis, a term introduced by Julian Huxley. This view of evolution was emphasized by George...
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    teach evolution as part of their science curriculum. They teach the fact that evolution occurs and that modern evolutionary synthesis is how evolution proceeds...
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  • regarded as one of the most important works of modern synthesis and was one of the earliest. The book popularized the work of population genetics to other biologists...
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  • Vererbung [The Germ Plasm: A Theory of Inheritance] (in German). Jena: S. Fischer Verlag. Huxley, Julian (1942). Evolution, the modern synthesis. Allen and...
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    directed evolution. With the emergence of the modern synthesis, in which genetics was integrated with evolution, orthogenesis and other alternatives to...
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    societies of the scientific explanation of life's diversity See also Applications in other disciplines Evolution: The Modern Synthesis – book by Julian...
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  • John Baker (biologist) (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
    Race. London: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-212954-6. Evolution : the modern synthesis by Julian Huxley; with a new introd. edited by John R. Baker...
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    Lysenkoism (category Non-Darwinian evolution)
    research in the Soviet Union "Bourgeois pseudoscience" Nature versus nurture controversy Huxley, Julian (1942). Evolution, the Modern Synthesis. p. 17. Leone...
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  • Tempo and Mode in Evolution (1944) was George Gaylord Simpson's seminal contribution to the evolutionary synthesis, which integrated the facts of paleontology...
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    August Weismann (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Julian 1942. Evolution, the modern synthesis. p. 17 Winther, Rasmus (2001). "August Weismann on Germ-Plasm Variation". Journal of the History of Biology...
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    Darwin's idea was denigrated by many. His master-work Evolution: The Modern Synthesis gave the name to a mid-century movement which united biological...
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