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Against the background of development as hierarchical and epigenetic presented in the previous two chapters, we can begin to ask how change, especially morphological change, occurs in evolution and whether our knowledge of development as hierarchical and epigenetic is sufficient to enable us to ‘explain’ the developmental basis of such evolutionary change. As summarized in Chapter 4, Geoffroy’s explanation for morphological variation between organisms was epigenetic and incorporated a role, albeit a neoLamarckian role, for the environment
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A plausible argument could be made that evolution is the control of development by ecology. Oddly, neither area has figured importantly in evolutionary theory since Darwin, who contributed much to each. (Van Valen, 1973, p. 488.)
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Hall, B.K. (1992). Integrated change in development and evolution. In: Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7926-1_8
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