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

The most comprehensive framework for the Extended Synthesis is the Major Transitions in Evolution. This is the picture that emerges from evo-devo, epigenetics, comparative genomics, and other developments that feed what some researchers are calling the Extended Synthesis of evolution theory. It's interesting that “Rewriting” implies more the relationship of Einstein to Newton than an Extended Synthesis. Multilevel Selection and Major Transitions. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. Book: Evolution - the Extended Synthesis Author: Massimo Pigliucci, Gerd B. However, are you sure that we really need to get rid of the term 'randomness' in favor of 'evolutionary chance', as the authors of the article propose? The modern evolutionary synthesis is also incomplete, because it fails to extend the issues of natural selection in an organism's development to their co-evolutionary partners; the microbes. Conversely the importance of epigenetics must be a serious challenge to the understanding of evolution itself. 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!). Müller, Evolution: The Extended Synthesis (pp. Müller, "Evolution - the Extended Synthesis" The M IT Pr ess | 2010 | ISBN: 0262513676 | 504 pages | PDF | 33 MB. Ledyard Stebbins extended these theories to plants and emphasized polyploidy and hybridization as mechanisms of evolution.