[Revised entry by Jan Baedke and Scott F. Gilbert on October 14, 2024.
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The relationship between development and evolution has recently become a lively debated topic among philosophers and biologists. This interest has been increasingly stirred through at least six developments since the 1990s: First, new findings of the molecular genetic mechanisms underlying the development and evolution have triggered new ideas about evolutionary change. These discoveries and conceptual innovations eventually led to the foundation of the new field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). Second, the…

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