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The explanation of phenotypic novelties is a central goal of evo-devo. Building on earlier classifications, three types of novelties are distinguished, here renamed constituting novelty, discretizing novelty, and individualizing novelty. A discussion of developmental innovation processes and modeling approaches highlights the central roles of generic material properties and process dynamics in novelty formation. Whereas individualizing novelty is consistent with the standard modes of variation, constituting novelty and discretizing novelty give rise to evolutionary innovation, a class of phenotypic change regarded as distinct from adaptive variation. A developmental theory of innovation privileges emergent development over genetic variation in the explanation of phenotypic novelty.
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Müller, G.B. (2021). Developmental Innovation and Phenotypic Novelty. In: Nuño de la Rosa, L., Müller, G.B. (eds) Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32979-6_66
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