Evolution The Modern Synthesis

<b>The definitive edition of one of the most important scientific books of the twentieth century, setting out the conceptual structure underlying evolutionary biology.</b><p>This classic work by Julian Huxley, first published in 1942, captured and synthesized all that was then known about evolutionary biology and gave a name to the Modern Synthesis, the conceptual structure underlying the field for most of the twentieth century. Many considered Huxley''s book a popularization of the ideas then emerging in evolutionary biology, but in fact <i>Evolution: The Modern Synthesis</i> is a work of serious scholarship that is also accessible to the general educated public. It is a book in the intellectual tradition of Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley—Julian Huxley''s grandfather, known for his energetic championing of Darwin''s ideas. A contemporary reviewer called <i>Evolution: The Modern Synthesis</i>“the outstanding evolutionary treatise of the decade, perhaps the century.&