Why call it developmental bias when it is just development?

Abstract The concept of developmental constraints has been central to understand the role of development in morphological evolution. Developmental constraints are classically defined as biases imposed by development on the distribution of morphological variation. This opinion article argues that the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Isaac Salazar-Ciudad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-01-01
Series:Biology Direct
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13062-020-00289-w