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Chance, Variation and Shared Ancestry: Population Genetics After the Synthesis (2019)

Veuille, Michel (Author)

Journal of the History of Biology
Volume: 52
Issue: 4
Pages: 537-567

DOI: 10.1007/s10739-019-09584-3

URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-019-09584-3

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Speciation Chance Evolution Population genetics Modern Synthesis (biology) 20th century, late

Chance has been a focus of attention ever since the beginning of population genetics, but neutrality has not, as natural selection once appeared to be the only worthwhile issue. Neutral change became a major source of interest during the neutralist–selectionist debate, 1970–1980. It retained interest beyond this period for two reasons that contributed to its becoming foundational for evolutionary reasoning. On the one hand, neutral evolution was the first mathematical prediction to emerge from Mendelian inheritance: until then evolution by natural selection was considered the alternative to the fixity of species; now it appears to be the alternative to continuous change. Second, neutral change generated a set of clear predictions on standing variation. These could be used as a reference for detecting more elusive alternative mechanisms of evolution including natural selection. In the wake of the transition from Mendelism to genomics, the combination of coalescent theory, DNA sequence variation, and numerical analysis made it possible to integrate contingent aspects of the history of species into a new null model, thus opening a new dimension in the concept of population that the Modern Synthesis formerly considered as a mere gene pool.

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