evolutionary synthesis

collocation in English

meaningsofevolutionaryandsynthesis

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evolutionary
adjective
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/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ər.i/us
/ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.er.i/
relating to the way in which living things develop over millions ...
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synthesis
noun
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/ˈsɪn.θə.sɪs/us
/ˈsɪn.θə.sɪs/
chemistryspecialized
the production of a substance from simpler materials after a ...
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The architects ofevolutionarysynthesisquestioned the idea that molecular characters constitute "cleaner" and "more direct" evidence of evolution.
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Since the 17th century, over 500 observations of ballooning behaviours have been published, yet there is an absence of anyevolutionarysynthesisof these data.
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This architect of modernevolutionarysynthesis, like his grandfather, saw a discontinuity between animal evolution and human conduct, the departure of culture beyond simple biological development.
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It should not be confused with quantum evolution, a theory related to the modernevolutionarysynthesis.
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This is the link between natural selection and genetics, as described in the modernevolutionarysynthesis.
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They teach the fact that evolution occurs and the modernevolutionarysynthesis, which is the scientific theory that explains why evolution occurs.
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The full significance of natural selection was at last accepted in the 1930s and 1940s as part of the modernevolutionarysynthesis.
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Symbiosis as a major evolutionary force was not discussed at all in theevolutionarysynthesis.
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Additionally, the modernevolutionarysynthesisdraws no distinction between macroevolution and microevolution, considering the former to simply be the latter on a larger scale.
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In the creation-evolution controversy, creationists often call those who accept the validity of the modernevolutionarysynthesisevolutionists and the theory itself as evolutionism.
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The book became one of the canonical publications on the modernevolutionarysynthesis.
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It is regarded as one of the most important works of the modernevolutionarysynthesis.
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Only with the modernevolutionarysynthesis, was it established that variation needed to be heritable to act as the raw material for selection.
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Population genetics was a vital ingredient in the emergence of the modernevolutionarysynthesis.
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Evolutionary biology as an academic discipline emerged with the modernevolutionarysynthesisin the 1930s and 1940s.
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This evidence supports the modernevolutionarysynthesis, the current scientific theory that explains how and why life changes over time.
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He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth centuryevolutionarysynthesis.
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The term is sometimes also colloquially used to refer to acceptance of the modernevolutionarysynthesis, a scientific theory that describes how biological evolution occurs.
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Third, the modernevolutionarysynthesiswas devised at a time when nobody understood the molecular basis of genes.
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According to modernevolutionarysynthesisall those processes are the root cause of evolutionary change.
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