Evolutionary Developmental Biology Offers a Significant Challenge to the Neo-Darwinian Paradigm

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 199-212

  Laubichler, Manfred D ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"revolutionary" position in science resembling "counter revolution"; Conceptual basis of evo devo diverse; Evo devo challenging Neo Darwinian Paradigm; Evo devo and different temporal scales; Evo devo investigating range of specific questions; Evo devo representing a paradigm shift; Evolutionary developmental biology challenge to Neo Darwinian paradigm; Rare episodes of paradigm shifts in science conceptual in nature; Theory of phenotypic evolution

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EID: 84889274233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314922.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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