Altenberg meeting

The Altenberg meeting, which was known as the Altenberg 16 controversy, was a symposium, held in the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, in Altenberg, Austria, in the period of 11-13 July 2008, with the participation of 16 evolutionary scientists, and that proposed an extended evolutionary synthesis. The title of the symposium was "Toward an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis?".