According to Beatty (1986), population genetics defines the core of the modern synthesis. In the first few decades of the 20th century, most field naturalists continued to believe that Lamarckian and orthogenic mechanisms of evolution provided the best explanation for the complexity they observed in the living world.
The Netherlands has been a constitutional monarchy since 1815 and a parliamentary democracy since 1848. Previously, it was a republic from 1581 to 1806, and a kingdom between 1806 and 1810 (it was part of France between 1810 and 1813).
Dennis Wiersma: The Netherlands is a country of freedom, one that stands for the equal value of men and women, gay and straight people, black and white people, those who support these values, will feel at home in the Netherlands. But those who do not, do not belong here.