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For the studio album by English rock band Area 11, see Modern Synthesis. For other uses, see Modern synthesis (disambiguation).

Modern synthesis or modern evolutionary synthesis refers to several perspectives on evolutionary biology, namely:

  • Modern synthesis (20th century), the term coined by Julian Huxley in 1942 to denote the synthesis between Mendelian genetics and selection theory.
  • Neo-Darwinism, the term coined by George John Romanes in 1895 to refer to a revision of Charles Darwin's theory first formulated in 1859.