The future of evolutionary developmental biology.
Combining fields as diverse as comparative embryology, palaeontology, molecular phylogenetics and genome analysis, the new discipline of evolutionary developmental biology aims at explaining how developmental processes and mechanisms become modified during evolution, and how these modifications produce changes in animal morphology and body plans. In the next century this should give us far greater mechanistic insight into how evolution has produced the vast diversity of living organisms, past and present.
Holland
P W
PW
School of Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Reading, UK. p.w.h.holland@reading.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D015509:Developmental Biology / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D020440:Gene Duplication; D016678:Genome; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D010641:Phenotype; D010802:Phylogeny