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| Author | Stephen Jay Gould |
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| Language | English |
| Subjects | Ontogeny, phylogeny |
| Publisher | Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |
Publication date | 1977 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 501 |
| ISBN | 0674639405 |
| LC Class | QH371 .G68 |
Ontogeny and Phylogeny is a 1977 book on evolution by Stephen Jay Gould, in which the author explores the relationship between embryonic development (ontogeny) and biological evolution (phylogeny). Unlike his many popular books of essays, it was a technical book, and over the following decades it was influential in stimulating research into heterochrony (changes in the timing of embryonic development), which had been neglected since Ernst Haeckel's theory that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny[a] had been largely discredited. This helped to create the field of evolutionary developmental biology.
- ^ Hall, B. K. (2003). "Evo-Devo: evolutionary developmental mechanisms". International Journal of Developmental Biology. 47 (7–8): 491–495. PMID 14756324.
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