Hamilton’s rule:  It states that an allele that causes an altruistic behavior will spread if the following condition is met (rb>C)

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 Mutationist - Theories were advanced by some geneticists who observed that discretely different new phenotypes can arise by a process of mutation.

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Ronald A. Fisher, John B. S. Haldane and Sewall Wright- which showed that mutation and natural selection together cause adaptive evolution.

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Neutral theory of molecular evolution- Developed by Motoo Kimura, who argued that most of the evolution of DNA sequences occurs by chance (genetic drift) rather than by natural selection. 

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Theory of recapitulation - Ernst Haeckel

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He proposed that the embryonic development of an individual organism (its ontogeny) followed the same path as the evolutionary history of its species (its phylogeny).

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Bergmann’s rule: populations in colder climates tend to have greater body mass than those in warmer climates. This pattern is so common that it has a name