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Phylogenetic anticipation means that organs or their rudiments evolve at an early stage of a group’s evolution, disappear at the next stages and later re-emerge either as adaptations or as a mark of a new evolutionary stage. A similar phenomenon is the emergence of aristogenes, organs useless for an organism but creating preconditions for the origin of “useful” organs in its distant descendants. Unlike “anticipatory” features, they do not disappear in the immediate descendants but continue to evolve although their adaptive significance does not become apparent for a long time. Anticipations and aristogenes can be considered as a case of parallelisms and/or convergences, which have always attracted orthogeneticists.
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Popov, I. (2018). Anticipation, Parallelisms and Convergences. In: Orthogenesis versus Darwinism. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95144-7_11
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