… , we focus our discussion of secondary growth on secondary vascular growth in stems from
… of secondary growth, such as production of cork from phellogen, or secondary thickening in …

… that explains the sources of diversity of secondary growth, considered across the entire …
the origin of secondary growth. In this hypothesis, various modes of secondary growth reflect a …

… overlap with conventional considerations of evolution and development. The problems are
very difficult ones; not the least difficulty being our ignorance of developmental processes. …

… of this paper is that developmental and demographic … development has a strong role in the
evolution of life histories, life histories have had a strong role in the evolution of development. …

… the execution of alternative developmental pathways. The spatial and temporal
compartmentalization of endocrine interactions has produced a developmental mechanism that …

… The main selection principle during the evolution of organisms which can afford the "… growth
and short generation times. A continuous evolution of biochemical pathways in secondary …

… evolution’ (though we will question that second assertion later). And even when other important
recent discoveries in developmental … have a general ‘theory of development’. But at least …

… We also extend a standard growth rate model by separating its ecological and evolutionary
… in the evolution of plant defense. We conclude with a conceptual model of the evolution of …

… In the second part, I review evidence of direct fitness costs of growth acceleration from
both phenotypic manipulation studies and comparisons of populations with different intrinsic …

… development and evolution raised above. In this article, I contrast the approaches of growth
… that concentrates on developmental sequences (Smith, 2001b). I discuss a general ap- …