what is meant by the term modern synthesis?
Modern synthesis-Also called neo-Darwinism and the synthetic theory of evolution, the theory of evolution that combines Darwinism with information gained from modern experimental geneticists, population biologists, mathematicians, and paleontologists. Mutation-Random changes in the sequence of the DNA in a gene.
What I propose to call the âevolutionary chanceâ character of genetic mutations (i.e., the Modern Synthesisâ consensus view) was, in the 1930s, a widespread assumption shared by geneticists and evolutionary biologists, especially with regard to variations arising in higher organisms.