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Today there are two major paradigms in biology. One is the Modern Synthesis, the framework that has unified the ideas of Darwin and Mendel and has put them on the firm mathematical basis provided by the equations of population genetics. The Modern Synthesis was proposed in the 1930s by Ronald Fischer (1930), Sewall Wright (1931), J.B.S. Haldane (1932), Theodosius Dobzhansky (1937) and others, and then extended, in the 1940s, by Julian Huxley (1942), Ernst Mayr (1942), George Gaylord Simpson (1944), Bernhard Rensch (1947) and others. New extensions have recently been advocated by various authors, in particular by George Williams (1966), Stephen Jay Gould (2002), Gerd Müller (2007), Sean Carroll (2008) and Massimo Pigliucci (2009).
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Barbieri, M. (2015). Code Biology. In: Code Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14535-8_10
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