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Modern synthesis (20th century)

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Richard Dawkins

English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (born 1941)

British statistician, evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1890–1962)

German-American evolutionary biologist (1904-2005)

Geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1892-1964)

Hermann Joseph Muller

American biologist (1890–1967)

American geneticist (1903-1989)

British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author (1887–1975)

Theodosius Dobzhansky

geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1900-1975)

The Selfish Gene

1976 essay by Richard Dawkins

quantitative representation of natural and sexual selection within evolutionary biology

John Maynard Smith

British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist (1920-2004)

modern evolutionary synthesis

early-20th-century scientific theory combining Darwinian evolution and Mendelian inheritance

American geneticist (1889-1988)

The Blind Watchmaker

essay by Richard Dawkins

George Christopher Williams

American evolutionary biologist (1926–2010)

Alfred Sturtevant

American biologist (1891–1970)

The Extended Phenotype

essay by Richard Dawkins

British ornithologist and biologist (1910-1973)

George Ledyard Stebbins

American botanist and geneticist (1906-2000)

British ecological geneticist (1901-1988)

Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky

Soviet biologist (1900–1981)

gene-centered view of evolution

since heritable information is passed from generation to generation almost exclusively by DNA, natural selection and evolution are best considered from the perspective of genes

American botanist (1897-1969)

Sergei Chetverikov

Russian scientist (1880–1959)

William Ernest Castle

American geneticist (1867–1962)

Edwin Stephen Goodrich

English zoologist (1868–1946)

Bernhard Rensch

German zoologist (1900-1990)

Ivan Schmalhausen

Russian zoologist (1884–1963)

British evolutionary embryologist (1899-1972)

Adaptationism is a scientific perspective on evolution that focuses on accounting for the products of evolution as collections of adaptive traits, each a product of natural selection with some adaptive rationale.

fitness landscape

model used to visualise relationship between genotypes and reproductive success

The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

book by Ronald Aylmer Fisher

Douglas J. Futuyma

American biologist

American geneticist (1877-1954)

C. D. Darlington

British biologist (1903-1981)

Genetics and the Origin of Species

essay by Theodosius Dobzhansky

Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection

principle relating genetic variance to fitness

Bernard Kettlewell

British geneticist, lepidopterist and medical doctor (1907-1979)

British zoologist

quantum evolution

component of George Gaylord Simpson's multi-tempoed theory of evolution

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis