The main accomplishment of the "New Synthesis" or modern Darwinism was
A) to select a new set of scientists to take up the evolution argument after the death of Darwin and Huxley.
B) the frantic search for answers to the creationist challenge of the early 1900s.
C) the application of new discoveries in genetics, classification, biogeography, paleontology, etc. to Darwin's basic tenets, and which tied these fields together in a new framework.
D) to split Darwin's ideas into small details (microevolution) and larger concepts (macroevolution).

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The modern synthesis, also known as the "New Synthesis," was a significant development in evolutionary biology that integrated findings from various scientific fields such as genetics, classification, biogeography, and paleontology, among others, into a new framework. The synthesis tied together these fields with Darwin's basic tenets of natural selection and evolution through the incorporation of new discoveries in genetics, which provide the necessary mechanism for genetic variation inheritance.

The Main Accomplishment of the "New Synthesis" or Modern Darwinism