Evolutionary developmental biology

Evolutionary developmental biology (often referred to as 'evo-devo' or evolution of development) is a field of biology that compares the developmental processes of different animals in an attempt to determine the ancestral relationship ...

Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo): The branch of evolutionary biology studying the relationships between changes in developmental pathways due to mutations in regulatory parts of genes and evolutionary changes (macroevolution).

Evolutionary developmental biology
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In the 1980s, developmental biology re-entered evolutionary biology from its initial exclusion from the modern synthesis through the study of evolutionary developmental biology.

However, with the recent rise of the field known as "evo-devo", or evolutionary developmental biology, many of the ideas proposed by Waddington and others have been revisited (Schlichting and Pigliucci 1998, Amundson 2005, Levinton 2001).

See also: Biology, Developmental biology, Evolution, Origin, Evolutionary biology