Unifying Biology by Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis(1996)Unifying Biology offers a historical reconstruction of one of the most important yet elusive episodes in the history of modern the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s. For more than seventy years after Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, it was hotly debated by biological scientists. It was not until the 1930s that opposing theories were finally refuted and a unified Darwinian evolutionary theory came to be widely accepted by