Ecological evolutionary developmental biology in dialogue with agroecology: The Milpa as model system

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (14) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Mariana Benitez
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Biology ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Evolutionary Developmental Biology ◽  
Model System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Agricultural Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Large Effort ◽  
The One ◽  
Evo Devo

The fields of agroecology and ecological evolutionary developmental biology  (eco-evo-devo) have been performing somewhat parallel efforts of synthesis. On the one hand, agroecology has incorporated knowledge from different disciplinary sources, among which are of course ecology, agronomy and, in a  less extent, other scientific disciplines. It has also embraced local and traditional agricultural knowledge. On the other hand, during the last decades a large effort has aimed to integrate diverse theories, evidence and tools from ecology, developmental and evolutionary biology in what has been called eco-evo-devo.

Evolution Makes More Sense in the Light of Development

2014 ◽  
Vol 76 (8) ◽  
pp. 493-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostas Kampourakis ◽  
Alessandro Minelli
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Biology ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Conceptual Development ◽  
Evolutionary Developmental Biology ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Common Ancestry ◽  
Development Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Psychological Essentialism ◽  
Evo Devo

We highlight some important conceptual issues that biologists should take into account when teaching evolutionary biology or communicating it to the public. We first present conclusions from conceptual development research on how particular human intuitions, namely design teleology and psychological essentialism, influence the understanding of evolution. We argue that these two intuitions form important conceptual obstacles to understanding evolution that should be explicitly addressed during instruction and public communication. Given that a major issue in evolution is understanding how very different forms may share common ancestry – antievolutionists have argued that this is inconceivable – we suggest that evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), which provides concepts and evidence that large morphological change is possible, could be used to address the intuitions that organisms have fixed essences (psychological essentialism) and that their structure indicates some kind of intentional design (design teleology).

scholarly journals Invertebrate taxonomy and evolutionary developmental biology*

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1668 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALESSANDRO MINELLI
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Biology ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Evolutionary Developmental Biology ◽  
Research Area ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Research ◽  
Evo Devo ◽  
The Way

Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) is a new research area where the traditions of evolutionary biology and developmental biology merge together. As in the past there has been a fruitful two-way exchange between evolutionary biology and taxonomy, and also between developmental biology and taxonomy, now the way is open for two-way exchanges between taxonomy and evolutionary developmental biology.

Evo-Devo and the Structure(s) of Evolutionary Theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan C. Love
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Biology ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Mechanistic Explanation ◽  
Evolutionary Developmental Biology ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Adaptive Function ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Central Location ◽  
Developmental Form ◽  
Evo Devo

Many researchers have argued that evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) constitutes a challenge to standard evolutionary theory, requiring the explicit inclusion of developmental processes that generate variation and attention to organismal form (rather than adaptive function). An analysis of these developmental-form challenges indicates that the primary concern is not the inclusion of specific content but the epistemic organization or structure of evolutionary theory. Proponents of developmental-form challenges favor moving their considerations to a more central location in evolutionary theorizing, in part because of a commitment to the value of mechanistic explanation. This chapter argues there are multiple legitimate structures for evolutionary theory, instead of a single, overarching or canonical organization, and different theory presentations can be understood as idealizations that serve different investigative and explanatory goals in evolutionary inquiry.

The Intellectual Challenge of Morphological Evolution: A Case for Variational Structuralism

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günter P. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Biology ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Morphological Evolution ◽  
Evolutionary Developmental Biology ◽  
Phenotypic Evolution ◽  
Developmental Variation ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
Intellectual Challenge

This chapter explores variational structuralism, whose core idea is that organisms and their parts play causal roles in shaping the patterns of phenotypic evolution. Drawing on the work of pioneers such as Ron Amundson, it discusses the conceptual incompatibilities between two styles of thinking in evolutionary biology: functionalism and structuralism. It proceeds by explaining the meaning of developmental types and structuralist concepts arising from macromolecular studies. It also examines facts and ideas about bodies, Rupert Riedl's theory of the “immitatory epigenotype,” and Neil Shubin and Pere Alberch's developmental interpretation of tetrapod limbs. Finally, it looks at the emergence of molecular structuralism and the enigma of developmental variation. The chapter argues that typology naturally emerged from the facts of evolutionary developmental biology and that it would be seriously problematic to try to avoid it.

Brave New Digital Tools for Action Research in Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 42-64
Author(s):  
Reinhard Bauer ◽  
Klaus Himpsl-Gutermann ◽  
Martin Sankofi ◽  
Petra Szucsich ◽  
Ruth Petz
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

Due to the rapid development of digital media, the work of researchers in all scientific disciplines has dramatically changed. The objective of this chapter is to give a brief overview of digital tools that can be used for action or practice research in the context of seamless learning. It is the intention of the authors to, on the one hand, provide some initial orientation and deeper insight into the complex subject matter of digital science. On the other hand, researchers shall be equipped with a user guide that encourages them to try out various digital tools for searching, collecting, annotating, analyzing, visualizing, interpreting as well as publishing information. Owing to the dynamic nature of the issue under review this chapter will undoubtedly only offer a snapshot.

Evolutionary developmental biology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Amundson
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Biology ◽  
Evolutionary Developmental Biology ◽  
Developmental Genetics ◽  
Comparative Biology ◽  
Embryological Development ◽  
Adult Form ◽  
The Core ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Evo Devo ◽  
Year 2000

Evolutionary developmental biology is the study of evolutionary change (called phylogeny) as it is revealed through the embryological development of individual organisms (called ontogeny). On this approach, the understanding of ontogeny contributes to our understanding of phylogeny, and vice versa. Evolutionary thinkers of the nineteenth century almost all held what may be called the core doctrine of evolutionary developmental biology: that in order to achieve a modification in the adult form, evolution must modify the embryological processes responsible for that form, so that an understanding of evolution requires an understanding of development. Evolutionary theory has no theoretical need for developmental views of evolution. Beginning around 1990 a series of discoveries and theoretical innovations in developmental genetics led to the reinvigoration of developmental approaches to evolution. Evolutionary developmental biology (‘evo-devo’ as it is now called) was inaugurated as a Division of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in the year 2000.

Evolutionary Biology and Evolutionary Economics

1997 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias L. Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Developmental Biology ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Evolutionary Economics ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Evolutionary Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Evolutionary Economic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Evolutionary And Developmental Biology

The paper identifies two major conceptual challenges facing evolutionary economics and shows how they parallel similar challenges facing evolutionary and developmental biology. One issue is the differentiation between learning-by-doing, on one hand, and habit formation, on the other. Another issue is the distinction between the cause or origin of evolutionary mutation/innovation, on one side, and the relevant unit which is the subject of evolutionary change, on the other. The failure to identify these two sets of distinction may hinder the articulation of an apropos evolutionary economic theory.

Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo) Research in Latin America

2016 ◽  
Vol 328 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvain Marcellini ◽  
Favio González ◽  
Andres F. Sarrazin ◽  
Natalia Pabón-Mora ◽  
Mariana Benítez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Biology ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Evolutionary Developmental Biology ◽  
Evo Devo
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