What is the modern evolutionary synthesis? Read about how the Theory of Evolution has evolved. In Praise of Edward O. Wilson. In his 1975 book, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, E.O. Wilson brought together evolutionary perspective to the social sciences. Darwin developed his theory of natural selection without any knowledge of genetics. Since Darwin, genetics and evolution have been synthesized. Furthermore, natural. Modern evolutionary synthesis Charles Darwin’s work on Origin of Species led to overwhelming acceptance of theory of ev Dinosaurs Evolved in a Startlingly Short Time. New fossil dates show beasts arose from their ancestors in half the time researchers previously thought Evolutionary biology, as an academic discipline in its own right, emerged during the period of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s (Smocovitis. Abstract. In 1858, two naturalists, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, independently proposed natural selection as the basic mechanism responsible for the. Summary of the modern synthesis. The modern synthesis bridged the gap between the work of experimental geneticists and naturalists, and paleontologists. Provides a number of essays and articles on various aspects of biology and evolutionary theory. This tutorial has been optimized for Internet Explorer, 1024 X 768 resolution, and high color graphics. Windows Media Player and/or RealPlayer should be set.