Evolutionary Developmental Biology does not Offer a Significant Challenge to the Neo-Darwinian Paradigm

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 213-226

  Minelli, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Developmental constraint or bias; Developmental genetics; Evolution the modern synthesis; Evolutionary developmental (evo devo) biologists; Evolutionary developmental biology; Evolving evolutionary synthesis; Population genetics explaining microevolution; Population genetics vs. developmental genetics; Results of evo devo in conflict with tenets of neo Darwinism

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EID: 77956338581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314922.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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