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ReviewResults and problems in cell differentiation2026

Reflections on Model Species in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.

Alan C Love, Yoshinari Yoshida

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Review in Results and problems in cell differentiation, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Alan C LoveDepartment of Philosophy and Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA. aclove@umn.edu.
Yoshinari YoshidaDepartment of Science Education, Section for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This chapter reflects on and makes explicit the distinctiveness of reasoning practices associated with model species in the context of evolutionary developmental research. Model species in evo-devo instantiate a unique synthesis of model systems strategies from developmental biology and comparative strategies from evolutionary biology. This synthesis negotiates a tension between developmental conservation and evolutionary modification to address scientific questions about the evolution of development and the developmental basis of evolutionary change. We review different categories of model systems that have been advanced to understand practices found in the life sciences in order to comprehend how evo-devo model species instantiate this synthesis in the context of three examples: the starlet sea anemone and the evolution of bilateral symmetry, leeches and the origins of segmentation in bilaterians, and the corn snake to understand major evolutionary change in axial and appendicular morphology.

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Biological EvolutionDevelopmental BiologyModels, BiologicalAnimalsLeechesSea Anemones

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