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== Fisher ==

In a 1918 publication titled "The Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance Among Close Relatives," [[R.A. Fisher]] showed that particulate inheritance was capable of generating the vast amount of variation we see among closely related individuals. This was a major reconciliation between the Biometric and Mendelian schools of thought at the time, and a huge first step in the [[Modern Synthesis]].

In the first chapter of his 1930 book ''[[The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection]]'' [[Ronald Fisher]] demonstrates that [[Mendelian inheritance]] shows that [[natural selection]] and not [[mutationism|mutation]]s drive [[evolution]], and that it firmly discounted [[blending inheritance]], thus paving the way for the [[Modern evolutionary synthesis]].<ref>Fisher R. 1930. ''[[The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection]]'', Chapter 1.</ref>

== Notes ==