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Timing of developmental and evolutionary change

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Evolutionary Developmental Biology

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When timing of development varies in a descendent relative to timing of the equivalent developmental process in an ancestor, it is known as heterochrony.

Use time, or time will use you. (Anon.)

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© 1992 Brian K. Hall

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Hall, B.K. (1992). Timing of developmental and evolutionary change. In: Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7926-1_11

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