The connection between development and evolution has become the focus of an increasing
amount of research in recent years, and heterochrony has long been a key concept in this …

The concept of heterochrony, which denotes a change in the relative timing of
developmental events and processes in evolution, has accompanied attempts to link …

Development and Evolution surveys and illuminates the key themes of rapidly changing
fields and areas of controversy that the redefining the theory and philosophy of biology. It …

The concept of heterochrony is a persistent component of discussions about the way that
evolution and development interact. Since the late 1970s heterochrony has been defined …

Avian hatchlings display remarkable differences in their external appearance, activity, and
behavior. At the one extreme we find independent hatchlings (Fig. 1a), which locomote …

Seed dormancy plays an important role in germination ecology and seed plant evolution.
Morphological seed dormancy is caused by an underdeveloped embryo that must mature …

Fertilized eggs from a brown trout Salmo trutta population in northern Spain were incubated
in the laboratory at 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18° C. Developmental stage and embryo size …

DNA methylation‐based biomarkers of ageing (epigenetic clocks) promise to lead to new
insights into evolutionary biology of ageing. Relatively little is known about how the natural …

One of the most persistent questions in comparative developmental biology concerns
whether there are general rules by which ontogeny and phylogeny are related. Answering …

Every individual of a population is challenged daily by circumstances that demand certain
levels of performance if the organism is to survive long enough to contribute to recruitment …