How species arise
Natural selection acting on heritable variation explains adaptation without a designer. Darwin had no mechanism of inheritance, and Mendel's genetics, rediscovered in 1900, supplied it. The modern synthesis combined the two with population genetics.
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Closed 1859, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace; modern synthesis, 1930s–40s.
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