Robert, Jason Scott (2002) How Developmental is Evolutionary Developmental Biology? [Preprint]

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Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) offers both an account of developmental processes and also new integrative frameworks for analyzing interactions between development and evolution. Biologists and philosophers are keen on evo-devo in part because it appears to offer a comfort zone between, on the one hand, what some take to be the relative inability of mainstream evolutionary biology to integrate a developmental perspective; and, on the other hand, what some take to be more intractable syntheses of development and evolution. In this article, I outline core concerns of evo-devo, distinguish theoretical and practical variants, and counter Sterelny's recent argument that evo-devo's attention to development, while important, offers no significant challenge to evolutionary theory as we know it.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Robert, Jason Scott
Keywords:	Development, epigenetics, evolution, evo-devo, evolvability, modularity
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Developmental Biology
Depositing User:	Jason Scott Robert
Date Deposited:	24 Jan 2002
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2015 15:03
Item ID:	546
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Developmental Biology
Date:	January 2002
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/546

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