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 te
William Bateson championed Mendelism.
Karl Pearson led the biometric school.
E. B. Ford studied polymorphism in the scarlet tiger moth for many years.
Julian Huxley presented a serious but popularising version of the theory in his 1942 book Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.
Julian Huxley
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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synth
Modern synthesis (20th century)
…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…
Huxley in 1922
English Heritage blue plaque at 16 Bracknell Gardens, Hampstead, London, commemorating Julian, his younger brother Aldous, and father Leonard
T. H. Huxley with Julian in 1893
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