Evolutionary developmental biology, or'evo-devo', is the study of the relationship between
evolution and development. Dealing specifically with the generative mechanisms of …

Scientific inference typically relies on establishing causation. This is also the case in
evolutionary biology, a discipline charged with providing historical accounts of the properties …

Calls to understand the links between ecology and evolution have been common for
decades. Population dynamics, ie the demographic changes in populations, arise from life …

The ability of a population to respond to natural or artificial selection pressures is determined
by the genetic architecture of the selected trait. It is now widely acknowledged that a …

The integration of research from developmental biology and ecology into evolutionary theory
has given rise to a relatively new field, ecological evolutionary developmental biology (Eco …

There are many inputs during development that influence an organism's fit to current or
upcoming environments. These include genetic effects, transgenerational epigenetic …

The cellular machinery that regulates gene expression can be self-propagated across cell
division cycles and even generations. This renders gene expression states and their …

Modern evolutionary biology is founded on the Mendelian-genetic model of inheritance, but
it is now clear that this model is incomplete. Empirical evidence shows that environment …

Scientific activities take place within the structured sets of ideas and assumptions that define
a field and its practices. The conceptual framework of evolutionary biology emerged with the …

The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis (MS) forged in the mid-twentieth century was built on a
notion of heredity that excluded soft inheritance, the inheritance of the effects of …