Modern evolutionary synthesis
Síntesis evolutiva moderna
- Date
- 1930-1942 · confidence high
- Place
- Columbia University, New York (Dobzhansky) / United Kingdom
- Credited to
- R. A. Fisher, J. B. S. Haldane, Sewall Wright, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ernst Mayr, Julian Huxley, G. G. Simpson
- People
- 👤 Ernst Mayr1904–2005👤 Julian Huxley1887–1975👤 Theodosius Dobzhansky1900–1975
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
It integrated Mendelian genetics with Darwinian natural selection through population genetics, defining evolution as change in allele frequencies and species as reproductive communities.
What it led to
- evolutionary biology as a unified discipline
- population genetics and modern statistics
- evolutionary ecology
- molecular evolution and phylogenetics
Built on
- Mendelian inheritance1865-1866
- Genetic linkage and chromosome maps (Morgan)1910-1915
- Darwin
- Morgan's linkage
- Hardy-Weinberg law
Made possible
- mathematical models of evolution