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Gavin Rylands de Beer

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