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Evolution - the Extended Synthesis by Massimo Pigliucci, Gerd B. Müller

Evolution - the Extended Synthesis Massimo Pigliucci, Gerd B. Müller ebook
Format: pdf
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN: 0262513676, 9780262513678
Page: 504

How Macro-Evolutionary Studies Call for an Extended Synthesis. A major debate in evolutionary biology circles today is whether the mid-20th century modern synthesis needs to be radically updated. And a consensus is emerging that it's time for change, or an “extended synthesis". In the Massimo Pigliucci's “extended synthesis for evolutionary biology” includes the following Venn diagram:. And now I must on to the most important part of modern evolutionary sciences, the modern synthesis, the modern synthesis was the synthesis of genetics and evolution, it is truly worth a post of its own, even a book of its own (wait… it does have multiple books of its own actually!). Ledyard Stebbins extended these theories to plants and emphasized polyploidy and hybridization as mechanisms of evolution. I made a few semantic changes and extrapolated some of my major points.*. Edit *This is taken from the Philosophy community. This group thinks that current evolutionary theory is insufficient and needs serious updating. Sunday, February 17, 2013: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM. Evolutionary Psychology and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. The edition contains a foreword by the biologists Gerd Muller and Massimo Pigliucci (authors of Evolution: the Extended Synthesis, always from MIT) that explains facets of the actuality of the book. Room 203 (Hynes Convention Center). We imagine that Darwin couldn't have asked for a better 200th birthday present than to see his life's work so powerfully extended. Have you read "Evolution: The Extended Synthesis"? To learn more, visit the NESCent website. It's a summary of the "Altenberg 16" meeting. Darwinian evolution has been extended, and to some extent supplanted, by the modern evolutionary synthesis. NESCent, Video podcast on how culture shaped Darwin's ideas provided by the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). Primary literature: Abzhanov, A., Kuo, W.