KnowraModern synthesisLinked fromLinked fromThe 30 pages that link to Modern synthesis, each with the reason it gives.All 30Broader topic 3Related 11Narrower topic 7Compared with 9Charles DarwinRelated: It supplied a genetic account of inheritance that Darwin lacked.EvolutionRelated: It unified inheritance and natural selection into a population-level account of evolution.Evolutionary biologyRelated: It reconciled inheritance with natural selection in a unified evolutionary framework.Evolutionary developmental biologyCompared with: Its relative neglect of development motivated later efforts to connect developmental mechanisms with evolution.LamarckismCompared with: Its genetic account of inheritance displaced classical Lamarckism as the standard evolutionary framework.On the Origin of SpeciesRelated: Genetics later supplied an inheritance theory absent from Darwin’s original account.Ronald FisherRelated: Fisher's mathematical population genetics helped establish the synthesis's theoretical foundations.Ernst HaeckelCompared with: It replaced Haeckel’s speculative evolutionary mechanisms with a genetics-based account.Jean-Baptiste LamarckCompared with: It explains evolutionary change through genetic variation rather than Lamarck’s use-and-disuse inheritance.Allopatric speciationNarrower topic: It supplied the genetic framework for explaining divergence between isolated populations.DarwinismBroader topic: It reconciled Darwin's mechanism with a genetic account of inheritance and variation.Lynn MargulisCompared with: Margulis challenged accounts that gave selection and gradual mutation too exclusive a role in major innovation.J. B. S. HaldaneRelated: Haldane’s theoretical work helped unite genetics and evolution in this synthesis.Julian HuxleyRelated: Huxley gave this emerging framework its influential name in his 1942 book Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.Theodor BoveriRelated: The chromosome evidence Boveri helped develop became part of the genetic foundation later integrated into evolutionary theory.Evolutionary taxonomyNarrower topic: The synthesis supplied the evolutionary theory that taxonomy sought to reflect.LysenkoismCompared with: Its synthesis of heredity and evolution contrasts with Lysenkoism’s rejection of genetics.Theistic evolutionRelated: Its scientific account of evolution shaped contemporary versions of theistic evolution.Theodosius DobzhanskyNarrower topic: Dobzhansky’s 1937 book helped establish this framework by explaining evolution through genetic changes in populations.Ernst MayrNarrower topic: Mayr helped establish this framework by connecting evolutionary theory with systematics and species formation.OrthogenesisRelated: Its population-genetic account displaced orthogenesis as an explanation of evolutionary change.August WeismannNarrower topic: It recast evolutionary heredity with mechanisms unavailable to Weismann.Hugo de VriesNarrower topic: The synthesis incorporated mutation as a source of variation but rejected mutation alone as a sufficient explanation of evolution.MutationismCompared with: The synthesis reconciled mutation as a source of variation with selection as a major evolutionary process.Evolutionary theoryBroader topic: It united inheritance and population-level change into a coherent evolutionary framework.Inheritance of Acquired CharacteristicsNarrower topic: It established gene-based inheritance and selection as the central evolutionary framework.History of geneticsRelated: It reconciled inheritance with natural selection and reshaped evolutionary biology.History of evolutionary thoughtBroader topic: It reconciled inheritance with Darwinian evolution and shaped biology for decades.Pierre Teilhard de ChardinCompared with: Its population-level account differs from Teilhard’s broader metaphysical interpretation of evolutionary direction.Alternatives to Darwinian evolutionCompared with: It incorporated mutation and drift while retaining selection as a major evolutionary explanation.
KnowraModern synthesisLinked fromLinked fromThe 30 pages that link to Modern synthesis, each with the reason it gives.All 30Broader topic 3Related 11Narrower topic 7Compared with 9Charles DarwinRelated: It supplied a genetic account of inheritance that Darwin lacked.EvolutionRelated: It unified inheritance and natural selection into a population-level account of evolution.Evolutionary biologyRelated: It reconciled inheritance with natural selection in a unified evolutionary framework.Evolutionary developmental biologyCompared with: Its relative neglect of development motivated later efforts to connect developmental mechanisms with evolution.LamarckismCompared with: Its genetic account of inheritance displaced classical Lamarckism as the standard evolutionary framework.On the Origin of SpeciesRelated: Genetics later supplied an inheritance theory absent from Darwin’s original account.Ronald FisherRelated: Fisher's mathematical population genetics helped establish the synthesis's theoretical foundations.Ernst HaeckelCompared with: It replaced Haeckel’s speculative evolutionary mechanisms with a genetics-based account.Jean-Baptiste LamarckCompared with: It explains evolutionary change through genetic variation rather than Lamarck’s use-and-disuse inheritance.Allopatric speciationNarrower topic: It supplied the genetic framework for explaining divergence between isolated populations.DarwinismBroader topic: It reconciled Darwin's mechanism with a genetic account of inheritance and variation.Lynn MargulisCompared with: Margulis challenged accounts that gave selection and gradual mutation too exclusive a role in major innovation.J. B. S. HaldaneRelated: Haldane’s theoretical work helped unite genetics and evolution in this synthesis.Julian HuxleyRelated: Huxley gave this emerging framework its influential name in his 1942 book Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.Theodor BoveriRelated: The chromosome evidence Boveri helped develop became part of the genetic foundation later integrated into evolutionary theory.Evolutionary taxonomyNarrower topic: The synthesis supplied the evolutionary theory that taxonomy sought to reflect.LysenkoismCompared with: Its synthesis of heredity and evolution contrasts with Lysenkoism’s rejection of genetics.Theistic evolutionRelated: Its scientific account of evolution shaped contemporary versions of theistic evolution.Theodosius DobzhanskyNarrower topic: Dobzhansky’s 1937 book helped establish this framework by explaining evolution through genetic changes in populations.Ernst MayrNarrower topic: Mayr helped establish this framework by connecting evolutionary theory with systematics and species formation.OrthogenesisRelated: Its population-genetic account displaced orthogenesis as an explanation of evolutionary change.August WeismannNarrower topic: It recast evolutionary heredity with mechanisms unavailable to Weismann.Hugo de VriesNarrower topic: The synthesis incorporated mutation as a source of variation but rejected mutation alone as a sufficient explanation of evolution.MutationismCompared with: The synthesis reconciled mutation as a source of variation with selection as a major evolutionary process.Evolutionary theoryBroader topic: It united inheritance and population-level change into a coherent evolutionary framework.Inheritance of Acquired CharacteristicsNarrower topic: It established gene-based inheritance and selection as the central evolutionary framework.History of geneticsRelated: It reconciled inheritance with natural selection and reshaped evolutionary biology.History of evolutionary thoughtBroader topic: It reconciled inheritance with Darwinian evolution and shaped biology for decades.Pierre Teilhard de ChardinCompared with: Its population-level account differs from Teilhard’s broader metaphysical interpretation of evolutionary direction.Alternatives to Darwinian evolutionCompared with: It incorporated mutation and drift while retaining selection as a major evolutionary explanation.