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Evolutionary Genetics and the Genetic Control of Morphogenesis in Flowering Plants

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Evolutionary Biology

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There are good reasons why the importance of developmental biology for an understanding of evolution had to be rediscovered recently (Gould, 1977; Løvtrup, 1981; Bonner, 1982). The Synthetic Theory of Evolution had been built up on the demonstration that natural populations contain an immense amount of genetic variation that could fully account for the morphological variation studied by naturalists (Mayr and Provine, 1980). This central achievement of the Synthetic Theory had to be defended against a false picture of genetic evolution due to rare mutations with major, often deleterious effects. The creative force in evolution undoubtedly is not mutation pressure, but selection. To support this statement, the store of genetic variation in natural populations had to be characterized, and it had to be shown that steady selection pressure could slowly and gradually alter characters by accumulating small additive effects of many genes.

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Bachmann, K. (1983). Evolutionary Genetics and the Genetic Control of Morphogenesis in Flowering Plants. In: Hecht, M.K., Wallace, B., Prance, G.T. (eds) Evolutionary Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6971-8_5

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