Evolution: The Modern Synthesis 4758816 215624872 2008-05-29T00:23:34Z 99.243.191.41 /* Publication history */ '''''Evolution: The Modern Synthesis''''', a [[1942]] book by [[Julian Huxley]] (grandson of [[Thomas Henry Huxley|T.H. Huxley]]), is one of the most important books of the [[modern evolutionary synthesis]]. ==== Publication history ==== Allen & Unwin, London. (1942, reprinted 1943, 1944, 1945, 1948, 1955; 2nd ed, with new introduction and bibliography by the author, 1963; 3rd ed, with new introduction and bibliography by nine contributors, 1974). U.S. first edition by Harper, 1943. [this summarises research on all topics relevant to evolution up to the Second World War] ==== Its significance ==== In the book Huxley tackles the subject of evolution at full length, in what became the defining work of his life. His role was that of a synthesiser, and it helped that he had met many of the other participants. His book was written whilst he was Secretary to the Zoological Society, and made use of his remarkable collection of reprints covering the first part of the century. It was published in 1942. Reviews of the book in learned journals were little short of ecstatic; the ''American Naturalist'' called it "The outstanding evolutionary treatise of the decade, perhaps of the century. The approach is thoroughly scientific; the command of basic information amazing." <ref>Hubbs C.L. 1943. Evolution the new synthesis. ''American Naturalist'' '''77''', 365-68.</ref><ref>Kimball R.F. 1943. The great biological generalization. ''Quarterly Review of Biology'' '''18''', 364-67 [another review of ''Ev. the modern synthesis''].</ref><ref>[[Karl P. Schmidt]], Evolution the Modern Synthesis by Julian Huxley, Copeia, Vol. 1943, No. 4 (Dec. 31, 1943), pp. 262-263</ref><ref>[[Conway Zirkle]], Isis, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Spring, 1944), pp. 192-194</ref> ==== References ==== {{reflist}} [[Category:1942 books]] [[Category:Evolutionary biology literature]] {{science-book-stub}} [[pt:Evolution: The Modern Synthesis]]