We know that Darwinian evolution acts on all forms of ... from non-living materials and marks an important step in the synthesis of new forms of life in the laboratory." ...

Along with Theodosius Dobzhansky, George Gaylord Simpson, and others, Mayr achieved the "modern synthesis" in the 1930s and 1940s that integrated Mendel's theory of heredity with Darwin's theory ...

providing him with both the natural history and live evidence for phenotypic change and natural selection (it should be emphasized that others contributed to Darwin's great synthesis of thought ...