... researcher, and the author of one of the most infl uential of the founding texts of the Synthesis, Genetics and the Origin of Species. The passage I have chosen is from one of his later books, Mankind ... one of the three great founders of popula-tion, mathematical, and evolutionary genetics, one of the half dozen or so founders of the neo-Darwinian Modern Synthesis, and arguably the founder of ... rather than as the munifi cent benefactor of the Oxford professorship in Public Understanding of Science that I hold. Now, in the year of my retire-ment, it fi nally seems appropriate to offer...