What is the modern synthesis?
The modern synthesis, also called the synthetic theory and the evolutionary synthesis, was the marriage of Mendelian genetics to Darwinian theories of evolution. It grew out of a long and drawn-out debate about the mechanism and relative importance of inheritance. Its basic conclusions now form the underpinnings of modern evolutionary theory. Please see The Modern Synthesis, Talk.Origins – The Modern Synthesis of Genetics and Evolution. For information on the people involved, see Modern Theorist Biographies.
