APPENDIX Z6: Modern Evolutionary Synthesis*
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APPENDIX Z6:
Modern Evolutionary
Synthesis*
Synthesis*
a
The modern evolutionary synthesis is a union of
ideas
ideas
from several biological specialties which provides a widely
accepted account of evolution. It is also
referred to as the
referred to as the
new synthesis, the modern synthesis, the evolutionary
synthesis, millennium synthesis and the neo-darwinian
synthesis.
Some key points are –
• Evolution is gradual:
small genetic changes regulated
small genetic changes regulated
by natural selection
accumulate over long periods.
accumulate over long periods.
• Natural selection*
b
is by far the main mechanism of
change; even slight
advantages are important when
advantages are important when
continued.
*
a
Wikipedia Online, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_evolutionary_synthesis
(accessed February 6, 2012)
*
b
No scientic community consensus as of May 2012 as
regards the precise modality
regards the precise modality
of selection
from the author –
What is the actual modality of Natural Selection?
Is it perhaps Quest for Potential
∞
continuously super–
selecting from a plethora of mutations served-up
by
by
nature ongoing over the millennia?