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Genes in Development: Re-reading the Molecular Paradigm (Science and Cultural Theory)

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Phylogeny must stand in some relation to ontogeny, less close than recapitulation, but closer than both being merely processes that unfold over time. Evolutionists have tended to neglect how genotypic changes come to be reflected in how phenotypic origins, while developmentalists have tended to neglect how phenotypic gradients are actually brought about by genetic alterations. The papers in this volume attack various aspects of this set of problems, and in so doing, enrich our notions of both phylogenesis and ontogenesis, with the prospect of readying each for viable models of how the two interrelate.