BioConcepts

evolutionary synthesisevolutionäre Synthese (ger.)

• The theoretical and conceputal integration of different parts of biology, especially population biology, genetics and phylogenetics, into an evolutionary frameweork.  
  category evolutionary biology

  1943

  Comparative anatomy, entomology, natural history and ecology, classification, palaeontology, genetics and cytology, the study of behaviour – all these and many more are now meeting and illuminating each other in the new evolutionary synthesis

  Huxley, J. (1943). Darwinism to-day. Discovery 1943, 6-12; 38-41: 41.

  1945

  evolutionary synthesis

  Schmidt, K.P. (1945). [Rev. Hagen, V.W. von (1945). South America Called Them: Explorations of the Great Naturalists: La Condamine, Humboldt, Darwin, Spruce]. Copeia 1945, 179.

  1946

  The evolutionary synthesis brought about in our own time provides a wealth of material upon which the biographer of man may draw very rewardingly.

  Ashley Montagu, M.F. (1946). [Rev. Andrews, R.C. (1945). Meet Your Ancestors.] Ann. Amer. Acad. Pol. Soc. Sci. 246, 173.

  1950

  What I am sure of is that some such naturalistic and evolutionary synthesis as I have indicated is inevitable, and that the resultant view of human destiny is essentially true

  Huxley, J. (1950). New bottles for new wine: ideology and scientific knowledge. J. Roy. Anthoropol. Inst. Great Brit. Ireland 80, 7-23: 23.

  1980

  The Evolutionary Synthesis

  Mayr, E. & Provine, W.B. (eds.) (1980). The Evolutionary Synthesis.

  1992

  the evolutionary synthesis was primarily an American (to some extent, an Anglo-American) phenomenon

  Smocovitis, V.B. (1992). Unifying biology: the evolutionary synthesis and evolutionary biology. J. Hist. Biol. 25, 1-65: 40.