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Gavin Rylands de Beer
Saturday 18 November 2006
The Modern Synthesis is the recognition that emerged in the 1930s that genetics can adequately explain Darwinian evolution and speciation through natural selection.
See also
neodarwinism
genetics
Darwinian evolution
speciation through natural selection
theories of embryology
genome, evolution and developmental biology
References
Horder TJ. Gavin Rylands de Beer: how embryology foreshadowed the dilemmas of the genome. Nat Rev Genet. 2006 Nov;7(11):892-8. PMID: 17047688