The paradox of predictability provides a bridge between micro-and macroevolution

M Tsuboi, J Sztepanacz, S De Lisle… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The relationship between the evolutionary dynamics observed in contemporary populations
(microevolution) and evolution on timescales of millions of years (macroevolution) has been …

Twenty years on from Developmental Plasticity and Evolution: middle-range theories and how to test them

T Uller, L Milocco, J Isanta-Navarro… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT In Developmental Plasticity and Evolution, Mary-Jane West-Eberhard argued
that the developmental mechanisms that enable organisms to respond to their environment …

The predictive power of genetic variation

JC Uyeda, JW McGlothlin - Science, 2024 - science.org
Genetic variation is essential for evolutionary change. Over a few generations, variation
within populations can be used to predict how traits evolve under natural selection …

Developmental bias as a cause and consequence of adaptive radiation and divergence

C Stansfield, KJ Parsons - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Efforts to reconcile development and evolution have demonstrated that development is
biased, with phenotypic variation being more readily produced in certain directions …

Evaluating predictions of the patterning cascade model of crown morphogenesis in the human lower mixed and permanent dentition

DE Kenessey, CM Stojanowski, KS Paul - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Objective The patterning cascade model of crown morphogenesis has been studied
extensively in a variety of organisms to elucidate the evolutionary history surrounding …

Sexually divergent selection, allometric constraints, and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in cichlids from Lake Tanganyika

M Tsuboi, T Takahashi - Journal of evolutionary biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The evolution of sexual dimorphism is widely acknowledged as a manifestation of sex-
specific genetic architecture. Although empirical studies suggested that sexual dimorphism …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution and development

J Baedke, SF Gilbert - 2020 - plato.stanford.edu
The relationship between development and evolution has recently become a lively debated
topic among philosophers and biologists. This interest has been increasingly stirred through …

The beginning of divergence in morphological integration and modularity patterns is exemplified by the odontometric characters of two closely related bat species …

M Ghazali, O Vertsimakha, I Dzeverin - Acta Chiropterologica, 2024 - ingentaconnect.com
Covariation patterns of dental traits vary greatly among mammals due to the effect of
evolutionary factors. Studies of integration and modularity in dentition in closely related …

The macroevolutionary adaptive landscape: more than a metaphor?

M Pennell, D Jiang - 2024 - academic.oup.com
The application of quantitative genetics to evolutionary biology has gone from revolutionary
to foundational in the span of Stevan Arnold's scientific career. As a capstone to his …

Rewinding developmental trajectories shows how bears break a developmental rule

OE Stenberg, JE Moustakas-Verho, J Jernvall - Annales Zoologici Fennici, 2024 - BioOne
Mammals have evolved a broad variety of dental morphologies. Nevertheless, the
development of the mammalian dentition is considered highly conserved. Molar size …