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

Clark Barrett wrote an extended, critical review of Buller's 2005 book in the journal Philosophy of Science. He has a forthcoming book titled Evolution: The Extended Synthesis (co-edited with Gerd Muller, M.I.T. We imagine that Darwin couldn't have asked for a better 200th birthday present than to see his life's work so powerfully extended. Do We Need an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis? 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”. Primary literature: Abzhanov, A., Kuo, W. 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). Understanding the adaptive changes that alter the function of proteins during evolution is an important question for biology and medicine. We hear new expressions in biological evolution like, modern synthesis, punctuated equilibrium and modern synthesis extended. These are all indicating advances in biology not in evolution. To learn more, visit the NESCent website. The increasing Pigliucci M: Do we need an extended evolutionary synthesis?.