The synthesis drew together ideas from several branches of biology which had become separated, particularly genetics, cytology, systematics, botany, morphology, ecology and paleontology.
Museum of Modern Art | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Tate Modern | Modern Greek | Modern architecture | Modern Talking | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Modern Jazz Quartet | Modern art | modern art | Ensemble Modern | Rocko's Modern Life | modern rock | Modern Library | Modern English | modern architecture | Modern Language Association | Chemical synthesis | Modern Marvels | Modern liberalism in the United States | National Gallery of Modern Art | Thoroughly Modern Millie (musical) | Modern Folk Quartet | Modern Family | Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology | Irish Museum of Modern Art | Early Modern English | Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare | synthesis |
He reevaluates August Weismann's model of the cell compartmentalization of somatic and germline cell lineages (see Weismann barrier), and argues that the vision of the individual taken by the modern synthesis is insufficient to explain the early evolution of development or ontogeny.
The field was founded by the originators of the modern synthesis, R.A. Fisher, Sewall Wright and J. B. S. Haldane, and aimed to predict the response to selection given data on the phenotype and relationships of individuals.
The other key works of the modern evolutionary synthesis, whose publication also followed their authors' Jesup lectures, are Theodosius Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species, Ernst Mayr's Systematics and the Origin of Species and George Gaylord Simpson's Tempo and Mode in Evolution.