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Perspectives on Evolutionary and Developmental Biology Festschrift 2 TheFestschrift series collects studies in honor of scientific personalities who have had a significant impact on research in their field. Editor in Chief Luca Illetterati With the sponsorship of First edition 2019, Padova University Press © 2019 Padova University Press Università degli Studi di Padova via 8 Febbraio 2, Padova www.padovauniversitypress.it ISBN 978-88-6938-140-9 Printed in January 2019 All rights reserved. For citations, graphics, cartographic and photographic reproductions belonging to the pro- perty of third parties included in this work, the publisher is available to the owner of the property we were unable to find, as well as for any unwanted omissions and/or attribution errors in references Perspectives on Evolutionary and Developmental Biology Essays for Alessandro Minelli edited by Giuseppe Fusco UPADOVA P Table of contents Contributors IX Preface XIII Part I Theoretical investigations The causal structure of development and its evolution 3 Wallace Arthur Towards a developmental biology of holobionts 13 Scott F. Gilbert An evolutionary biology for the 21st century 23 Armin P. Moczek Evo-devo’s challenges to the Modern Synthesis 29 Gerd B. Müller Ever since Darwin: Why plants are important for evo-devo research 41 Rolf Rutishauser Structural and dynamic approaches to the development and evolution of plant form 57 Rolf Sattler Part II Conceptual elaborations Homology and homoplasy of life cycle traits 71 James DiFrisco Objects or processes? Theoretical terms or frame-concepts? Coupled changes in the life sciences and in their epistemology 83 Elena Gagliasso Categories of developmental biology: Examples of ambiguities and how to deal with them 93 Joachim T. Haug Evolving understanding of trilobite development: Recapitulation to adaptationism 103 Nigel C. Hughes Genetics makes more sense in the light of development 115 Kostas Kampourakis Overcoming the constraint-adaptation dichotomy: Long live the constraint-adaptation dichotomy 123 Mark Olson The continued mystery of the phylotypic stage 141 Diethard Tautz Part III Disclosing the tree of life The molecularization of centipede systematics 153 Gregory D. Edgecombe and Gonzalo Giribet “Perspectives in Animal Phylogeny and Evolution”: A decade later 167 Gonzalo Giribet and Gregory D. Edgecombe Humans of the Middle Pleistocene: an evolutionary scenario for the origin of Homo sapiens 179 Giorgio Manzi Phylo-evo-devo, tardigrades and insights into the evolution of segmentation 191 Maximilian J. Telford, Davide Pisani and Omar Rota-Stabelli Part IV Evolving organism features Hyper-epigyny is the ultimate constraint on orchid floral morphology and an ideal model for testing the Extended Synthesis 203 Richard M. Bateman and Paula J. Rudall Becoming segmented 235 Ariel D. Chipman Space and time in Hox/ParaHox gene cluster evolution 245 David E. K. Ferrier Homology of endites and palps in insect mouthparts: Recent advances based on gene expression studies 259 Nikola-Michael Prpic What have we learned about the evolutionary relationships of neural structures in arthropods? 269 Angelika Stollewerk Ecological Developmental Biology and global ocean change: brachyuran crustacean larvae as models 283 Gabriela Torres, Franziska Spitzner, Steffen Harzsch and Luis Giménez Part V Modelling evolution and development Evo-devo beyond development: The evolution of life cycles 309 Giuseppe Fusco Towards a theory of Extended Development 319 James Griesemer Dynamic structures in evo-devo: From morphogenetic fields to evolving organisms 335 Johannes Jaeger The origin of evolutionary storytelling 357 Ronald A. Jenner The relationship between genetics, epigenetics and epigenesis in evolution and development 369 Isaac Salazar-Ciudad, Miquel Marín-Riera and Miguel Brun-Usan Treacherous trees: Trials and tribulations in tracing the trajectories of traits 379 Gerhard Schlosser Alessandro Minelli short biography A biographical sketch of Alessandro Minelli with a list of selected publications 391 Giuseppe Fusco and Lucio Bonato Contributors Wallace Arthur School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland [email protected] Richard M. Bateman Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK [email protected] Lucio Bonato Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy [email protected] Miguel Brun-Usan Departament de Genètica i Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Valles. Barcelona, Spain Institute for Life Sciences/Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK [email protected] Ariel D. Chipman The Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel [email protected] James DiFrisco Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium [email protected] Gregory D. Edgecombe Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK [email protected] David E. K. Ferrier The Scottish Oceans Institute, Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews, UK [email protected] X Contributors Giuseppe Fusco Department of Biology, University of Padova, Italy [email protected] Elena Gagliasso Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy [email protected] Scott F. Gilbert Department of Biology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA, USA Biotechnology Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland [email protected] Luis Giménez Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Germany School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, UK [email protected] Gonzalo Giribet Museum of Comparative Zoology & Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA [email protected] James R. Griesemer Department of Philosophy, University of California, Davis, USA [email protected] Steffen Harzsch Universität Greifswald, Zoological Institute and Museum, Department of Cytology and Evolutionary Biology, Greifswald, Germany [email protected] Joachim T. Haug Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Biocenter, Germany [email protected] Nigel C. Hughes Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, USA [email protected] Johannes Jaeger Complexity Science Hub (CSH) Vienna, Austria Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires (CRI), Paris, France [email protected] Ronald A. Jenner Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK [email protected] Contributors XI Kostas Kampourakis University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland [email protected] Giorgio Manzi Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy [email protected] Miquel Marín-Riera Departament de Genètica i Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Valles, Barcelona, Spain European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Barcelona, Spain [email protected] Armin P. Moczek Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, USA [email protected] Gerd B. Müller Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Vienna, Austria Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Klosterneuburg, Austria [email protected] Mark Olson Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico [email protected] Davide Pisani School of Biological Sciences and School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK [email protected] Nikola-Michael Prpic Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Institut für Allgemeine und Spezielle Zoologie, AG Zoologie mit Schwerpunkt Molekulare Entwicklungsbiologie, Gießen, Germany [email protected] Omar Rota-Stabelli Agrarian Entomology Unit, Department of Sustainable Agro-ecosystems and Bioresources, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, (TN), Italy [email protected] Paula J. Rudall Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK [email protected] Rolf Rutishauser Institut für Systematische und Evolutionäre Botanik, Universität Zürich, Switzerland [email protected] XII Contributors Isaac Salazar-Ciudad Centre de Recerca Matemàtica, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain Departament de Genètica i Microbiologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Valles, Barcelona, Spain [email protected] Rolf Sattler McGill University, Montreal, Canada [email protected] Gerhard Schlosser School of Natural Sciences and Regenerative Medicine Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland [email protected] Franziska Spitzner Universität Greifswald, Zoological Institute and Museum, Department of Cytology and Evolutionary Biology, Greifswald, Germany [email protected] Angelika Stollewerk Queen Mary University of London, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, London, UK [email protected] Diethard Tautz Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany [email protected] Maximilian J. Telford Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution, Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment, University College London, London, UK [email protected] Gabriela Torres Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Biologische Anstalt Helgoland, Helgoland, Germany [email protected] Preface This book is about development, evolution, and their fertile interface, evolu- tionary developmental biology (evo-devo). It is dedicated to Alessandro Minelli, distinguished zoologist and evolutionary biologist, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The collection of
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