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).
The Government is not seated in Amsterdam, but in The Hague. The Germans in World War 2 didn't know that, and attacked Amsterdam in an attempt to throw over the government. The Netherlands is well renown for it's Tulips, wooden shoes, waterworks, wind mills and canals. The Netherlands lies to the west of Germany and to the north of Belgium. It's located at the Northwest of Europe North of Belgium and East of Germany.