… This review highlights three evolutionary mechanisms acknowledged to modify ontogenesis…
-specific skull morphologies. We highlight how these evolutionary modifications occur on the …

… crest from which much of the skull is derived; and the … evolution, but we believe that a
comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms of morphological diversification of the skull—…

… may be gained if skull evolution and development are viewed from the … largely unappreciated
by comparative and evolutionary … We concentrate on mechanisms of pattern formation - the …

… development is relevant to understanding evolution because … synthesis of developmental
and evolutionary biology, but it … hypotheses about the evolutionary developmental biology of …

… —that most of ontogeny recapitulates evolutionary trends (Figures 4 and 5). Since the …
development (Table S1), we conclude that the main developmental mechanism for the evolution of …

… ), research into the evolutionary mechanisms of morphological … the domain of ecologists
and evolutionary biologists (eg, Chan … Analyses of development in an explicit evolutionary (ie, …

… mechanisms leading to different vertebrate skull phenotypes … developmental and
evolutionary patterns of skull variation … between snake and lizard skulls arose gradually through …

… Thus, one of the driving forces behind the evolution of the chondrocranium is likely to be …
most important evolutionary directions is represented by the variations in mechanisms driving …

… patterns are observed both during evolution and development of the mammalian skull. … bone
fusions during skull development are examples of heterochrony in skull evolution, which are …

… development and the origin of new morphologies. Further investigations of the developmental
mechanisms underlying skull development … clarify how fast development in snakes evolved…