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# - Over time, these genetic variations will accumulate until a new [[species]] results.

Darwin’s Theory on Natural Selection laid the ground work for the understandingevolutionary Evolutiontheory. However, it was the emergence of the field of [[Genetics]], pioneered by [[Gregor Mendel]], that provided the missing information on hereditary processes which now solidifies the Theory of Evolution. The mergence of Darwin’s ideas with our current understandings of heredity lead to the birth of [[Population Genetics]].