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von Baer's law for the ages: lost and found principles of developmental evolution

Arhat Abzhanov
- 01 Dec 2013 - 
- Vol. 29, Iss: 12, pp 712-722
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It is argued that, 185 years after von Baer's law was first formulated, its main concepts after proper refurbishing remain surprisingly relevant in revealing the fundamentals of the evolution-development connection, and suggest that their explanation should become the focus of renewed research.
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This article is published in Trends in Genetics.The article was published on 2013-12-01. It has received 73 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Evolutionary developmental biology.

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The macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration: from development to deep time.

TL;DR: The authors showed that phenotypic integration can produce both more and less disparate organisms than would be expected under random walk models by repartitioning variance in preferred directions, which can also be expected to favour homoplasy and convergent evolution.

The macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration: from development to deep time

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that phenotypic integration can produce both more and less disparate organisms than would be expected under random walk models by repartitioning variance in preferred directions, and that this effect can also be expected to favour homoplasy and convergent evolution.
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