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Discoveries In The 1900's

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In the 1900’s, discoveries in genetics and developmental biology were used as evidence for Darwin’s theories of evolution that regarded natural selections as unimportant; because there were more discoveries than just natural selection that were important ("What Did Darwin's Discoveries do.”). Darwin’s theories again became the dominant influences in evolutionary biology in a form called Neo-Darwinism; the genetic origin of variation within species and for how species are formed (“Darwin, Charles Robert.”). Neo Darwinism introduced the connection between two important discoveries; the units of evolution (genes) with the mechanism of evolution “natural selection” ("Neo-Darwinism"). He also showed that living things commonly produced many more
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