Evolutionary developmental genetics (evodevotics) is a novel scientific endeavor which
assumes that changes in developmental control genes are a major aspect of evolutionary …

There are many problems relating to defining the terminology used to describe various
biological relationships and getting agreement on which definitions are best. Here, I …

Beim Studium der jüngeren Kontroversen über den Darwinismus fiel mir wiederholt auf, das
sie falsche Darstellungen enthielten, so als würde es sich um irgendetwas Umfassenderes …

Although evolutionary developmental biology is a new field, its origins lie in the last century;
the search for connections between embryonic development (ontogeny) and evolutionary …

Pax 6 genes from various animal phyla are capable of inducing ectopic eye development,
indicating that Pax 6 is a master control gene for eye morphogenesis. It is proposed that the …

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 …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

The origin of animals, one of the major transitions in evolution, remains mysterious. Many
key aspects of animal evolution can be reconstructed by comparing living species within a …

Many regulatory genes appear to be utilized in at least superficially similar ways in the
development of particular body parts in Drosophila and in chordates. These similarities have …

Ascidians and vertebrates belong to the Phylum Chordata and both have dorsal tubular
central nervous systems. The structure of the ascidian neural tube is extremely simple …