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The emerging conceptual framework of evolutionary developmental biology

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  • Wallace Arthur

    (Ecology Centre, School of Sciences, University of Sunderland)

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Over the last twenty years, there has been rapid growth of a new approach to understanding the evolution of organismic form. This evolutionary developmental biology, or ‘evo-devo’, is focused on the developmental genetic machinery that lies behind embryological phenotypes, which were all that could be studied in the past. Are there any general concepts emerging from this new approach, and if so, how do they impact on the conceptual structure of traditional evolutionary biology? In providing answers to these questions, this review assesses whether evo-devo is merely filling in some missing details, or whether it will cause a large-scale change in our thinking about the evolutionary process.

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  • Wallace Arthur, 2002. "The emerging conceptual framework of evolutionary developmental biology," Nature, Nature, vol. 415(6873), pages 757-764, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:415:y:2002:i:6873:d:10.1038_415757a
    DOI: 10.1038/415757a
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    1. Ernesto Burgio & Prisco Piscitelli & Annamaria Colao, 2018. "Environmental Carcinogenesis and Transgenerational Transmission of Carcinogenic Risk: From Genetics to Epigenetics," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(8), pages 1-12, August.
    2. Marina L Sardi & Fernando V Ramírez Rozzi, 2012. "Different Cranial Ontogeny in Europeans and Southern Africans," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 7(4), pages 1-12, April.
    3. McCain, Katherine W., 2010. "Core journal literatures and persistent research themes in an emerging interdisciplinary field: Exploring the literature of evolutionary developmental biology," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 4(2), pages 157-165.

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