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Commentators on the evolutionary synthesis frequently identify that event with the formulation of the “synthetic theory.” According to the simplest such characterization of the synthesis, Mendelian genetic theory and Darwinian evolutionary theory — once considered irreconcilable — were eventually reconciled in the theory of population genetics, which is the core of the synthetic theory. That reconciliation itself constituted the much-heralded synthesis.1
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Beatty, J. (1986). The Synthesis and the Synthetic Theory. In: Bechtel, W. (eds) Integrating Scientific Disciplines. Science and Philosophy, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9435-1_7
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