evolution of functional overlap and mean fitness are effectively decoupled, because they occur on different time scales. As a … mutation. These results are discussed with respect to experimental evidence on redundant genes in organismal development. …

approach: the isolation of development as a target for testing via the construction of developmental morphospaces. <p …> Comparison of differently constructed morphospaces (one reflecting development directly, the other indirectly) provides a way of … consistently studying the impact of development in constraining or facilitating changes in diversity. Congruence in range and …

types of interaction but are much more common in the inductive case. These results support the idea that evolution does not …

Development is the usual arena of evolutionary change in morphology, and much of evolution obviously depends on it. It … average descriptions of development and evolution in multidimensional space. Two approaches are immediately obvious by … other observables might be informative in understanding the relationship between development and evolution. For example …

associated process theories have conventionally been treated in extrinsic, particularly ecological, terms, and development has …, to a reluctance of many students of development or ecology to delve into the interplay between allegedly ahistorical … principles of form generation and their historical realization in the process of evolution. It was not until recently, when the …