title: The role of mathematical population geneticists in the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s.
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Provine
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D003710:Demography; D005823:Genetics / Q000266:history*; D049711:History, Modern 1601-; D008433:Mathematics / Q000266:history*; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000266:history*