Commentary: The promise of ecological developmental biology

✍ Scribed by Sultan, Sonia E.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 76 KB
• Volume: 296B
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-104X
• DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.10

✦ Synopsis

Growing interest in this new direction was reflected in the 1989 publication of an important symposium on phenotypic plasticity in the journal Bioscience, presenting a range of ecological development studies and pointing to the critical importance of phenotypic response to environment for evolutionary theory (Stearns, '89 and references therein).