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Summary
Schematic representation of key concepts of Darwinism (center field), the Modern Synthesis (intermediate field), and the Extended Synthesis (outer field). The scheme is meant to depict the broad steps in the continuous expansion of evolutionary theory, not to enumerate all concepts belonging to each of these steps.

Pigliucci M, Muller GB (2010) Elements of an extended evolutionary synthesis. In: Evolution: The Extended Synthesis (Pigliucci M, Muller GB, eds), 3–17. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.