{"id":8527,"date":"2019-05-22T16:08:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/neo-darwinism\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:08:40","slug":"neo-darwinism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/neo-darwinism\/","title":{"rendered":"Neo-Darwinism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it is equated with the Modern synthesis, which is not strictly speaking correct as it was a fusion between the ideas contained in the <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Origin of species<\/span> (1859) and the mechanisms of heredity discovered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/scitable\/topicpage\/gregor-mendel-a-private-scientist-6618227\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/scitable\/topicpage\/gregor-mendel-a-private-scientist-6618227&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gregor Mendel<\/a> (1822-1894). &nbsp;However, by the turn of the 20th century, neo-Darwinism has become part of a three-way split between Mendelians, mutationists and selectionists. &nbsp;It was the Modern synthesis that brought together these different strands into one overarching theory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"darwinism\">Darwinism<\/a>, <a href=\"hereditary\">Hereditary<\/a>, <a href=\"heritability\">Heritability<\/a>, <a href=\"mendelian_genetics\">Mendelian genetics<\/a>, <a href=\"modern_synthesis\">Modern synthesis<\/a>, <a href=\"mutation_-biology-\">Mutation (biology)<\/a>, <a href=\"natural_selection\">Natural selection<\/a>, <a href=\"recapitulation_theory_-or_biogenetic_law-\">Recapitulation theory (or biogenetic law)<\/a>, <a href=\"theory_of_natural_selection\">Theory of natural selection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it is equated with the Modern synthesis, which is not strictly speaking correct as it was a fusion between the ideas contained in the Origin of species (1859) and the mechanisms of heredity discovered by Gregor Mendel (1822-1894). &nbsp;However, by the turn of the 20th century, neo-Darwinism has become part of a three-way split &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/neo-darwinism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Neo-Darwinism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}