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Evolution - the Extended Synthesis Massimo Pigliucci, Gerd B. Müller
Publisher: The MIT Press

Darwinian evolution has been extended, and to some extent supplanted, by the modern evolutionary synthesis. In the Massimo Pigliucci's “extended synthesis for evolutionary biology” includes the following Venn diagram:. Primary literature: Abzhanov, A., Kuo, W. And last but not least, according to most evo devo and even a great many mainstream evolutionary biologist, the modern synthesis is effectively dead as a theory. Will the new paradigm as in the proposed extended synthesis (ala the Altenberg 16) answer the questions that need to be answered? Müller, editors, Evolution – The Extended Synthesis, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2010. Would recommend reading Evolution, the Extended Synthesis (2010) edited by Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B Műller and published by The MIT Press. I'll cite one of many articles that speak of its demise. In the new book entitled "Evolution, the Extended Synthesis" published by MIT, Massimo Pigliucci and Gerd B Műller, along with the other Altenberg 16, clearly details why Modern Synthesis is in a crisis. I would like first to offer a few cautionary notes and then briefly to situate the conversation within the context of more recent theoretical work that is part of a new “extended synthesis” of evolutionary thought(1). We imagine that Darwin couldn't have asked for a better 200th birthday present than to see his life's work so powerfully extended. To learn more, visit the NESCent website. While what is being called the “Extended Synthesis” does not outright dispense with natural selection and gene mutations, it subordinates them to minor roles. NESCent, Video podcast on how culture shaped Darwin's ideas provided by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). Additionally, we extended our method to full transcript analysis to scan the genome for evidence of rapid evolution at the gene level (Additional file 5). Well only time will tell, but again, one thing is certain, and that is, the modern synthesis as taught now is a house of cards.