| evolutionary developmental biology: its concepts and history with a focus on russian and german contributions. | evolutionary theory has been likened to a "universal acid" (dennett 1995) that eats its way into more and more areas of science. recently, developmental biology has been infused by evolutionary concepts and perspectives, and a new field of research--evolutionary developmental biology--has been created and is often called evodevo for short. however, this is not the first attempt to make a synthesis between these two areas of biology. in contrast, beginning right after the publication of darwin's ... | 2010 | 20865238 |