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Evo-devo: A New Evolutionary Paradigm?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2006

Michael Ruse
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The homologies of process within morphogenetic fields provide some of the best evidence for evolution—just as skeletal and organ homologies did earlier. Thus, the evidence for evolution is better than ever. The role of natural selection in evolution, how–ever, is seen to play less an important role. It is merely a filter for unsuccessful morphologies generated by development. Population genetics is destined to change if it is not to become as irrelevant to evolution as Newtonian mechanics is to contempo–rary physics. (Gilbert, Opitz, and Raff 1996, 368)

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 56: Philosophy, Biology and Life , December 2005 , pp. 8 - 9
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2005

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