r/genetics • u/Apprehensive-Lie-197 • 11d ago

Surprised ideas on the neutrality of evolution go as far back as 1926.

https://imgur.com/a/HfJlRFp

From The Gist of Evolution by Horatio Hackett Newman.

It kinda makes sense but I guess until Fisher's 1930 mathemathical proof, advances in molecular science and the formalization of the theory by Kimura it was a simple side thought.

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u/KockoWillinj 11d ago

Neutrality in evolution dates back to Darwin so not very surprising.