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Developmental Approaches to the Problem of Transformation of Limb Structure in Evolution

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This paper is intended as an introduction to the subsequent contributions which are concerned with the developmental basis of limb evolution at a number of levels, whether genetical, embryological (both experimental and comparative) or palaeontological. Even to put this topic on the agenda of a development meeting reflects changing attitudes, particularly a degree of dissatisfaction with the neo-Darwinian “new evolutionary synthesis” which has long dominated evolutionary theory(Horder, 1989). The “synthesis” has been largely concerned with identifying selection pressures and their effects on gene frequencies within populations, to the exclusion of developmental biology.

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Hinchliffe, R. (1991). Developmental Approaches to the Problem of Transformation of Limb Structure in Evolution. In: Hinchliffe, J.R., Hurle, J.M., Summerbell, D. (eds) Developmental Patterning of the Vertebrate Limb. NATO ASI Series, vol 205. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3310-8_42

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