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Modern Synthesis: Darwin's Theory Of Natural Selection

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Modern Synthesis Evolution is a process that involves a change in the genetic material of a population of living organisms from one generation to the next. Evolution happens every day, even though the changes may be small. Charles Darwin was a scientist who came up with a theory that explain why evolution occurs. His theory included natural selection. Natural selection is the change in heritable traits of a population over time. It is the key mechanism of evolution. Gregor Mendel was a scientist who discovered modern genetics. He discovered modern genetics by experimenting in his garden. His experiments showed the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants. Together with Darwin’s evolution and Mendel’s genetics it creates modern synthesis. Modern synthesis is an “explanation for the evolution of Darwinism and Mendelian genetics” (Boyd and Silk 2015:61). Modern synthesis is a theory about how evolution works with genes, phenotypes, and population. Evolution is a change in gene frequency because of natural selection. Natural selection selects for traits. The traits are the phenotypes. Therefore, natural selections are selecting for the genes. The modern synthesis introduced multiple changes in how evolution and evolutionary processes were conceived. …show more content…

Natural selection chooses the survival trait that allows it to reproduce the good traits. For example, in a population of people there is a disease that kills a good amount of the population. The people who can survive that disease will live to reproduce. However, the ones that dies become weak because of their immune system. There evolution and chance of reproducing ends because they are dead. The ones who can survive can reproduce, and pass on the genes that does not carry the same disease. That generation of genes will never get the same disease

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