The Shape of Life: Genes, Development, and the Evolution of Animal Form

Preservation of Duplicate Genes by Complementary, Degenerative Mutations

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Hsp90 as a capacitor for morphological evolution

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Evolvability

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Explaining the Cambrian "Explosion" of Animals

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The evolution of signalling pathways in animal development

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The evolution and development of cranial form in Homo sapiens

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A comparison of phenotypic variation and covariation patterns and the role of phylogeny, ecology, and ontogeny during cranial evolution of new world monkeys

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Evolution of the chordate body plan: New insights from phylogenetic analyses of deuterostome phyla

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The macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration: from development to deep time

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Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo

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The Evolutionary Origin And Diversification Of Feathers

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The evolutionary role of modularity and integration in the Hominoid cranium

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Evidence for modular evolution in a long-tailed pterosaur with a pterodactyloid skull

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Conservation of trans-acting circuitry during mammalian regulatory evolution

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Human brain evolution: insights from microarrays

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Hierarchical nature of morphological integration and modularity in the human posterior face

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Breakdown of brain–body allometry and the encephalization of birds and mammals

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Approaches to Macroevolution: 1. General Concepts and Origin of Variation

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Robustness and modular design of the Drosophila segment polarity network

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Echinoderm larvae and phylogeny

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MOLECULAR PALAEOBIOLOGY

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A novel ontogenetic pathway in hybrid embryos between species with different modes of development

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Evolution of Flightlessness in Rails (Gruiformes: Rallidae): Phylogenetic, Ecomorphological, and Ontogenetic Perspectives

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Prelude to the Cambrian Explosion

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Adaptationism and the Logic of Research Questions: How to Think Clearly About Evolutionary Causes

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Functional Morphology and Fluid Interactions During Early Development of the Scyphomedusa Aurelia aurita

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What Makes the Human Brain Different?

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Unravelling intravertebral integration, modularity and disparity in Felidae (Mammalia)

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Patterns of craniofacial integration in extantHomo,Pan, andGorilla

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Heart enhancers with deeply conserved regulatory activity are established early in zebrafish development

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The origin of higher taxa: macroevolutionary processes, and the case of the mammals

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Transitions in Morphology, Nematocyst Distribution, Fluid Motions, and Prey Capture During Development of the Scyphomedusa Cyanea capillata

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Evolving complexity: how tinkering shapes cells, software and ecological networks.

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Riedl's burden and the body plan: selection, constraint, and deep time

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Developmental and Genetic Constraints on Neurocranial Globularity: Insights from Analyses of Deformed Skulls and Quantitative Genetics

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Phylogenetic analysis of some basal early Cambrian trilobites, the biogeographic origins of the Eutrilobita, and the timing of the Cambrian radiation

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Convergent Evolutionary Paths in Biological and Technological Networks

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Evolutionary Scenario of the Early History of the Animal Kingdom: Evidence from Precambrian (Ediacaran) Weng’an and Early Cambrian Maotianshan Biotas, China

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Origin of Evolutionary Novelties

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