Also known variously as the New Synthesis, the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis, the Evolutionary Synthesis, and the neo-Darwinian Synthesis. These alternative terms are ambiguous as they could possibly include later syntheses, so this article uses Julian Huxley's 1942 "modern synthesis" throughout.
^ Peter Gauthier has however argued that Weismann's experiment showed only that injury did not affect the germplasm. It did not test the effect of Lamarckian use and disuse.
^ Morgan's work with fruit flies helped establish the link between Mendelian genetics and the chromosomal theory of inheritance, that the hereditary material was embodied in these bodies within the cell nucleus.
^ Fisher also analysed sexual selection in his book, but his work was largely ignored, and Darwin's case for such selection misunderstood, so it formed no substantial part of the modern synthesis.
^ Though C. H. Waddington had called for embryology to be added to the synthesis in his 1953 paper "Epigenetics and Evolution".
