Recommendations and Goals for Evo-Devo Research

The evo-devo comet.

In his inspiring book Ontogeny and Phylogeny (1977), the late Stephen J. Gould explained why develop mental biology and evolution, two essential domains of the life sciences, had diverged during the course of the twentieth century; both disciplines had to reach independently a platform of mutual understanding, a theoretical framework wherein concepts are understood and accepted by both parties....

Whither plant evo-devo?

Evo-devo discovers morphology

constructive points. A critical examination is made of FA’s strength and weaknesses in comparison with other biomarkers, and ways to improve FA as a bio-indicator are suggested. As a whole, Developmental Instability is a mature and balanced compilation of an important subject in biology, which is, after all, about half a century old. Michal Polak has managed to combine excellent contributions o...

The place of phylogeny and cladistics in Evo-Devo research.

Here we review the various uses to which phylogenetic trees may be put when analysing the evolution of organisms and of the genotypic and phenotypic characteristics of these organisms. We briefly discuss the cladistic method and its application in the inference of phylogenetictrees. Next we consider the uses to which phylogenetic trees can be put: in particular for determining the homology or o...

Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo)