Modern synthesis (20th century)
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 framework. Julian Huxley coined the term in his 1942 book, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. The synthesis combined the ideas of natural selection, Mendelian genetics, and population genetics. It also related the broad-scale macroevolution seen by palaeontologists to the small-scale microevolution of local populations.
Modern synthesis (20th century) - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fusion of natural selection with Mendelian inheritance For other uses, see Modern synthesis (disambiguation) . Several major ideas about evolution came together in the population genetics of the early 20th century to form the modern synthesis, including genetic variation , natural selection , and particulate ( Mendelian ) inheritance. [ 1 ] This ended the eclipse of Darwinism and supplanted a variety of non-Darwinian theories of evolution . The modern synthesis [ a ] was the early 20th-century syn
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