EVOLUTION AND BIFURCATION OF DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMS
EvolutionPublished 1 May 1982
George Oster, Pere Alberch
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It is agreed with Waddington (1975) that morphological evolution can be defined as the change in developmental programs during phylogeny, but in order to render such a view operational the authors must state unambiguously what they mean by a "developmental program."
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