title: What was the evolutionary synthesis?
abstract: There has not been another scientific revolution that caused as much turmoil and dissension as the darwinian one. For almost 80 years it was again and again pronounced to be a failure and to be totally refuted, and at least three major alternatives were proposed to replace it. Yet, in the 1930s-1940s the opposing views were quickly and decisively refuted and a largely unified evolutionary theory emerged. Why and how this happened, however, is still rather controversial.
authors.affiliation: Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mayr