• used the phrase "the eclipse of Darwinism" to describe the state of affairs prior to what he called the "modern synthesis". During the "eclipse", evolution...
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    predated Darwin's theories. English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley coined the term Darwinism in April 1860. Darwinism subsequently referred to the specific...
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    Modern synthesis (20th century) (category History of evolutionary biology)
    neo-Darwinism. From the 1880s onwards, biologists grew skeptical of Darwinian evolution. This eclipse of Darwinism (in Julian Huxley's words) grew out of...
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    that natural selection "has been the main but not the exclusive means of modification". During "the eclipse of Darwinism" scientists explored alternative...
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    "the eclipse of Darwinism" from the 1880s to the 1930s, various other mechanisms of evolution were given more credit. With the development of the modern...
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    Peter J. Bowler (category Charles Darwin biographers)
    The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983) The Fontana History of the...
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    Alternatives to natural selection suggested during "the eclipse of Darwinism" (c. 1880 to 1920) included inheritance of acquired characteristics (neo-Lamarckism)...
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    contributor to environmental adaptation. First proposed during the Eclipse of Darwinism in the late 19th century, this effect has been independently proposed...
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    natural selection was denied, including but not limited to the late 19th century eclipse of Darwinism, alternative scientific explanations such as Lamarckism...
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  • (2003). "Creationism versus Darwinism: A Third Alternative". In Campbell, John Angus; Meyer, Stephen C. (eds.). Darwinism, Design and Public Education...
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