It's funny that the author points to the possibility of a synthesis, when one was just published within the last month by the Proceedings of the National Academ

It's funny that the author points to the possibility of a synthesis, when one was just published within the last month by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: http://www.pnas.org/content/113/40/11178.abstract http://www.pnas.org/content/113/40/11178.abstract.