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

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). Alex Mesoudi (2011) states that cultural evolution is Darwinian - but not neo-Darwinian. The automobile developed out of, and in opposition to, Early automobiles extended and adapted the accustomed 19th century understanding of locomotion. This group thinks that current evolutionary theory is insufficient and needs serious updating. In the post-genomic era, all the major tenets of the modern synthesis have been, if not outright overturned, replaced by a new and incomparably more complex vision of the key aspects of evolution. Have you read "Evolution: The Extended Synthesis"? New calculations extend Einstein's general theory of relativity into the universe's first few moments. Scientists Extend Einstein's Relativity to the Universe's First Moments. 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. The most comprehensive framework for the Extended Synthesis is the Major Transitions in Evolution. The International Conference Modelling Biological Evolution 2013: Recent Progress, Current Challenges and Future Directions will be held at the University of Leicester on May 1-3, 2013. I reviewed a couple A Corroboration of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. New innovations evolve from historical, iterative processes. 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. It's a summary of the "Altenberg 16" meeting.