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The modern synthetic theory of evolution is often referred as to one of the most successful scientific theories. This is so, because in a handful of principles, mechanisms, it seems to have the power to explain many different things in our environment. Macro-evolution, paleontology, artificial selection, heredity, etc. It ripples in many biological sciences, possibly bringing some « light » to make sense of what surrounds us, as coined by Dobzhansky. To the researcher however, nothing looks very obvious in
This theory mainly deals with the interacting effects of four forces: mutation, genetic drift, gene flow, and selection. The interplay of these forces has yet to be fully explored, understood, assimilated. We’re still far from that. The last one, selection, is the founding principle behind Darwin’s thinking of course. It mainly describes the inequality between individuals in terms of genetic contribution to the next generation. The shape, the strength, the speed of selection are of major interest, because t