Editing Neo-Darwinism (section)

==Current meaning==
Biologists, however, have not limited their application of the term ''neo-Darwinism'' to the historical synthesis. For example, [[Ernst Mayr]] wrote in 1984 that:
:The term ''neo-Darwinism'' for the synthetic theory [of the early 20th&nbsp;century] is sometimes considered wrong, because the term neo-Darwinism was coined by Romanes in 1895 as a designation of Weismann's theory.<ref name="Mayr"/><ref name="Kutschera"/><ref name="Reif"/><ref name="Pigliucci2007"/>

Publications such as ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' use ''neo-Darwinism'' to refer to current-consensus evolutionary theory, not the version prevalent during the early 20th&nbsp;century.<ref name="britannica1"/> Similarly, [[Richard Dawkins]] and [[Stephen Jay Gould]] have used ''neo-Darwinism'' in their writings and lectures to denote the forms of evolutionary biology that were contemporary when they were writing.<ref name="YouTube1"/><ref name="Gould2"/>