Para ilmuwan yang berperan serta dalam membangun teori baru ini termasuk ahli genetika G.Ledyard Stebbins dan Theodosius Dobzhansky, ahli ilmu hewan Ernst Mayr dan Julian Huxley, ahli kepurbakalaan George Gaylord Simpson dan Glenn L.Jepsen, dan ahli genetika matematis Sir Ronald A.Fisher dan Sewall Wright.
The scientists who participated in establishing the new theory included the geneticists G.Ledyard Stebbins and Theodosius Dobzhansky, the zoologists Ernst Mayr and Julian Huxley, the paleontologists George Gaylord Simpson and Glenn L.Jepsen, and the mathematical geneticists Sir Ronald A.Fisher and Sewall Wright.