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Modern evolutional developmental biology: Mechanical and molecular genetic or phenotypic approaches?

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Heightened interest in the evolutionary problems of developmental biology in the 1980s was due to the success of molecular genetics and disappointment in the synthetic theory of evolution, where the chapters of embryology and developmental biology seem to have been left out. Modern evo-devo, which turned out to be antipodean to the methodology of the synthetic theory of evolution, propagandized in the development of evolutionary problems only the mechanical and molecular genetic approach to the evolution of ontogenesis, based on cellular and intercellular interactions. The phonotypical approach to the evaluation of evolutionary occurrences in ontogenesis, which aids in the joining of the genetic and epigenetic levels of research, the theory of natural selection, the nomogenetic conception, and the problem of the wholeness of the organism in onto- and phylogenesis may be against this. The phenotypic approach to ontogenesis is methodologically the most perspective for evolutionary developmental biology.

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Original Russian Text © E.I. Vorob’eva, 2010, published in Ontogenez, 2010, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 332–339.

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Vorob’eva, E.I. Modern evolutional developmental biology: Mechanical and molecular genetic or phenotypic approaches?. Russ J Dev Biol 41, 283–290 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062360410050036

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