Punctuated evolution of embryos
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Recent research shed slight on the evolution of developmental processes. In Studies of sea urchins, frogs and ascidians, development from embryo to larva to adult correlated with life history strategies such as larval feeding and dispersal, and not with adult morphology.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1995
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Knowledge of Number: Its Evolution and Ontogeny
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Nonhuman animal intelligence research indicates that man is not the only species that knows how to count, or to represent number. Implications for human cultural history and assumptions about evolution are analyzed.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1998
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Plecopteran surface-skimming and insect flight evolution
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A hypothesis that skimming behavior was an intermediate stage in the evolution of insect flight is challenged for lack of phylogenic evidence. A reply is included.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1995
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