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The Modern Synthesis is Partly Wright

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Steven Hecht Orzack
Steven Hecht Orzack*
Affiliation:
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
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Gould (1980) claims that a “new and general theory of evolution” is emerging. He examines the modern synthesis and asserts that it is being rejected by present day evolutionary biologists. The purpose of this note is to show that Gould's view of the modern synthesis is distorted. Any rejection of the modern synthesis must rest on a more balanced characterization than that presented by Gould.

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Paleobiology , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Winter 1981 , pp. 128 - 131
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