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<p class="note">For the studio album by English rock band Area 11, see <a href="/facts/Modern_Synthesis/GTjgA4Bj">Modern Synthesis</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/facts/Modern_synthesis_(disambiguation)/0GYnq1Fb">Modern synthesis (disambiguation)</a>.</p> <p>Modern synthesis or modern evolutionary synthesis refers to several perspectives on evolutionary biology, namely: </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Modern_synthesis_(20th_century)/anJdPq34">Modern synthesis (20th century)</a>, the term coined by Julian Huxley in 1942 to denote the synthesis between Mendelian genetics and selection theory.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Neo-Darwinism/CPk8opGV">Neo-Darwinism</a>, the term coined by George John Romanes in 1895 to refer to a revision of Charles Darwin's theory first formulated in 1859.</li></ul>