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

(2010) Evolution—The Extended Synthesis. In July 2008 the 'Altenberg 16' met to attempt a new 'extended evolutionary synthesis'. The Evolution of Individuality. They plan to publish their ideas in a technical book titled Evolution: The Extended Synthesis. Evolution—The Extended Synthesis. In the Massimo Pigliucci's “extended synthesis for evolutionary biology” includes the following Venn diagram:. New innovations evolve from historical, iterative processes. Nice discussion of topics calling for more research in evolution. The essay was kind of spoiled for me, though, by the ending, in which Zimmer seems to buy into something he calls the “extended evolutionary synthesis”. The automobile developed out of, and in opposition to, Early automobiles extended and adapted the accustomed 19th century understanding of locomotion. Müller, eds., Evolution: The Extended Synthesis. "Should Evolutionary Theory Evolve? In real life, the meeting discussed the possibilities for an “Extended Synthesis” in evolutionary biology which incorporates development, evolvability, complexity theory, etc. However, long after the automobile had made the horse and carriage obsolete and the association had faded, the concepts of each still defined one another; this synthesis is still present today. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. Bacterial Cell Division and Peptidoglycan Synthesis: An Evolutionary Enigma . Darwinian evolution has been extended, and to some extent supplanted, by the modern evolutionary synthesis. Some biologists are calling for a rethink of the rules of evolution". 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).