Explores the relationship between ontogeny and phylogeny, including concepts such as complexity, modularity, evolvability, recapitulation, canalization, heterochrony, and homeosis. Examines empirical studies from comparative developmental genetics on the evolution of body axes, eyes, appendages, heads, and nervous systems. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion.

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