Typology now: Homology and developmental constraints explain evolvability

Biology and Philosophy

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 709-725

  Brigandt, Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Developmental constraints; Evolutionary developmental biology; Evolvability; Explanation; Homology; Organization; Theoretical integration

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; HOMOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; TYPOLOGY;

EID: 35448990425     PISSN: 01693867     EISSN: 15728404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10539-007-9089-3     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Abouheif E (1997) Developmental genetics and homology: A hierarchical approach, Trends Ecol Evol 12:405-408
2. Abouheif E, Akam M, Dickinson WJ, Holland PWH, Meyer A, Patel NH, Raff RA, Roth VL, Wray GA (1997) Homology and developmental genes. Trends Genet 13:432-433
3. Amundson R (1994) Two concepts of constraint: Adaptationism and the challenge from developmental biology. Philos Sci 61:556-578
4. Amundson R (2005) The changing role of the embryo in evolutionary thought: Roots of evo-devo. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
5. Amundson R, Lauder G (1994) Function without purpose: The uses of causal role functions in evolutionary biology. Biol Philos 9:443-469
6. Bolker JA (2000) Modularity in development and why it matters to evo-devo. Am Zool 40:770-776
7. Bolker JA, Raff RA (1996) Developmental genetics and traditional homology. Bioessays 18:489-494
8. Brigandt I (2003) Homology in comparative, molecular, and evolutionary developmental biology: The radiation of a concept. J Exp Zool (Mol Dev Evol) 299B:9-17
9. Brigandt I (2006) Homology and heterochrony: The evolutionary embryologist Gavin Rylands de Beer (1899-1972). J Exp Zool (Mol Dev Evol) 306B:317-328
10. Brigandt I (in press) Natural kinds in evolution and systematics: metaphysical and epistemological considerations. Acta Biotheoretica
11. Cracraft J (2005) Phylogeny and evo-devo: Characters, homology, and the historical analysis of the evolution of development. Zoology 108:345-356
12. de Beer GR (1971) Homology, an unsolved problem. Oxford University Press, Glasgow
13. Dickinson WJ (1995) Molecules and morphology: Where's the homology? Trends Genet 11:119-121
14. Donoghue MJ (1992) Homology. In: Keller EF, Lloyd EA (eds) Keywords in evolutionary biology, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, pp 170-179
15. Gerhart J, Kirschner M (1998) Evolvability. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95:8420-8427
16. Gilbert SF, Bolker JA (2001) Homologies of process and modular elements of embryonic construction. J Exp Zool (Mol Dev Evol) 291:1-12
17. Gilbert SF, Opitz JM, Raff RA (1996) Resynthesizing evolutionary and developmental biology. Dev Biol 173:357-372
18. Gilbert SF, Sarkar S (2000) Embracing complexity: Organicism for the 21st century. Dev Dyn 219:1-9
19. Gould SJ, Lewontin RC (1979) The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: A critique of the adaptationist programme. Proc R Soc Lond B 205:581-598
20. Griffiths PE (1996) The historical turn in the study of adaptation. Br J Philos Sci 47:511-532
21. Griffiths PE (2006) Function, homology, and character individuation. Philos Sci 73:1-25
22. Hall BK (1995) Homology and embryonic development. In: Hecht MK, MacIntyre RJ, Clegg MT (eds) Evolutionary biology, vol 28. Plenum Press, New York, pp 1-37
23. Kirschner M, Gerhart J (2005) The plausibility of life: Resolving Darwin's dilemma. Yale University Press, New Haven
24. Laubichler M (2000) Homology in development and the development of the homology concept. Am Zool 40:777-788
25. Lauder GV (1986) Homology, analogy, and the evolution of behavior. In: Nitecki MH, Kitchell JA (eds) Evolution of animal behavior: paleontological and field approaches. Oxford University Press, New York, pp 9-40
26. Lauder GV (1994) Homology, form, and function. In: Hall BK (eds) Homology: The hierarchical basis of comparative biology. Academic Press, San Diego, pp 151-196
27. Love AC (2006) Evolutionary morphology and evo-devo: Hierarchy and novelty. Theory Biosci 124:317-333
28. Love AC, Raff RA (2006) Larval ectoderm, organizational homology, and the origins of evolutionary novelty. J Exp Zool (Mol Dev Evol) 306B:18-34
29. Maynard Smith J, Burian R, Kauffman S, Alberch P, Campbell J, Goodwin B, Lande R, Raup D, Wolpert L (1985) Developmental constraints and evolution. Q Rev Biol 60:265-287
30. Mayr E (1959) Where are we? In: Wooldridge C (ed) Genetics and twentieth century Darwinism (Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology, vol 24). The Biological Laboratory, New York, pp 1-14
31. Mayr E (1982) The growth of biological thought. Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA
32. Mayr E (1994) Response to John Beatty. Biol Philos 9:357-358
33. Minelli A (2003) The development of animal form: Ontogeny, morphology, and evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
34. Müller GB (1991) Developmental mechanisms at the origin of morphological novelty: A side-effect hypothesis. In: Nitecki MH (ed) Evolutionary innovations. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp 99-130
35. Müller GB (2003) Homology: The evolution of morphological organization. In: Müller GB, Newman SA (eds) Origination of organismal form: Beyond the gene in developmental and evolutionary biology. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp 52-69
36. Müller GB, Newman SA (1999) Generation, integration, autonomy: three steps in the evolution of homology. In: Bock GR, Cardew G (eds) Homology. John Wiley & Sons, Chicester, pp 65-73
37. Müller GB, Wagner GP (1991) Novelty in evolution: Restructuring the concept. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 22:229-256
38. Müller GB, Wagner GP (1996) Homology, hox genes, and developmental integration. Am Zool 36:4-13
39. Müller GB, Wagner GP (2003) Innovation. In: Hall BK, Olson WM (eds) Keywords and concepts in evolutionary developmental biology. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, pp 218-227
40. Newman SA (2006) The developmental genetic toolkit and the molecular homology-analogy paradox. Biol Theor Integr Dev Evol Cogn 1:12-16
41. Nielsen C, Martinez P (2003) Patterns of gene expression: Homology or homocracy? Dev Genes Evol 213:149-154
42. Oster G, Alberch P (1982) Evolution and bifurcation of developmental programs. Evolution 36:444-459
43. Owen R (1843) Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the invertebrate animals, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London
44. Patterson C (1982) Morphological characters and homology. In: Joysey KA, Friday AE (eds) Problems of phylogenetic reconstruction. Academic Press, London pp 21-74
45. Rieppel O (2006) Modules, kinds, and homology. J Exp Zool (Mol Dev Evol) 304B:18-27
46. Roth VL (1988) The biological basis of homology. In: Humphries CJ (ed) Ontogeny and systematics. Columbia University Press, New York, pp 1-26
47. Simpson GG (1961) Principles of animal taxonomy. Columbia University Press, New York
48. Stadler BMR, Stadler PF, Wagner GP, Fontana W (2001) The topology of the possible: Formal spaces underlying pattern of evolutionary change. J Theor Biol 213:241-274
49. von Dassow G, Munro E (1999) Modularity in animal development and evolution: Elements for a conceptual framework for EvoDevo. J Exp Zool (Mol Dev Evol) 285:307-325
50. Wagner GP (1989a) The biological homology concept. Annu Rev Ecol Syst 20:51-69
51. Wagner GP (1989b) The origin of morphological characters and the biological basis of homology. Evolution 43:1157-1171
52. Wagner GP (1994) Homology and the mechanisms of development. In: Hall BK (ed) Homology: The hierarchical basis of comparative biology. Academic Press, San Diego pp 273-299
53. Wagner GP (1996) Homologues, natural kinds and the evolution of modularity. Am Zool 36:36-43
54. Wagner GP (2000) What is the promise of developmental evolution? Part I: why is developmental biology necessary to explain evolutionary innovations? J Exp Zool (Mol Dev Evol) 288:95-98
55. Wagner GP (2007a) How wide and how deep is the divide between population genetics and developmental evolution? Biol Philos 22:145-153
56. Wagner GP (2007b) The developmental genetics of homology. Nat Rev Genet 8:473-479
57. Wagner GP, Laubichler M (2000) Character identification in evolutionary biology: The role of the organism. Theory Biosci 119:20-40
58. Wagner GP, Misof BY (1993) How can a character be developmentally constrained despite variation in developmental pathways? J Evol Biol 6:449-455
59. Wagner GP, Stadler PF (2003) Quasi-independence, homology and the unity of type: A topological theory of characters. J Theor Biol 220:505-527
60. Wallace B (1986) Can embryologists contribute to an understanding of evolutionary mechanisms? In: Bechtel W (ed) Integrating scientific disciplines. M. Nijhoff, Dordrecht, pp 149-163
61. Winther RG (2001) Varieties of modules: Kinds, levels, origins and behaviors. J Exp Zool (Mol Dev Evol) 291:116-129
62. Wouters A (2003) Four notions of biological function. Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci 34:633-668