The future of evolutionary developmental biology
- 2 December 1999
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 402 (S6761) , C41-C44
- https://doi.org/10.1038/35011536
Abstract
Combining fields as diverse as comparative embryology, palaeontology, molecular phylogenetics and genome analysis, the new discipline of evolutionary developmental biology aims at explaining how developmental processes and mechanisms become modified during evolution, and how these modifications produce changes in animal morphology and body plans. In the next century this should give us far greater mechanistic insight into how evolution has produced the vast diversity of living organisms, past and present.Keywords
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