Evolution: A Developmental Approach

1. Introduction

2. What is evo-devo?

3. Development, cells and molecules

4. Natural populations

PART II:  DEVELOPMENTAL REPATTERNING

5. Mutation and developmental repatterning

6. Heterochrony

7. Heterotopy

8. Heterometry

9. Heterotypy

10. The integrative nature of repatterning

11. Mapping repatterning to trees

  PART III:  THE DIRECTION OF EVOLUTION

12. Adaptation, coadaptation and exaptation

13. Developmental constraint and bias

14. Developmental genes and evolution

15. Gene co-option as an evolutionary mechanism

16. Developmental plasticity and evolution

17. The origin of species, novelties and body plans

18. The evolution of complexity

PART IV:  CONCLUSIONS

19. Key concepts and connections

20. Prospect