The Main Accomplishment of the "New Synthesis" or Modern Darwinism

question 38

Multiple Choice

The main accomplishment of the "New Synthesis" or modern Darwinism was

• A) to select a new set of scientists to take up the evolution argument after the death of Darwin and Huxley.
• B) the frantic search for answers to the creationist challenge of the early 1900s.
• C) the application of new discoveries in genetics, classification, biogeography, paleontology, etc. to Darwin's basic tenets, and which tied these fields together in a new framework.
• D) to split Darwin's ideas into small details (microevolution) and larger concepts (macroevolution).

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