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Acknowledgements

I thank Ron Woodruff for giving me the opportunity to edit this special issue. I also thank authors of the papers in this volume for their participation and dedication. Bill Cresko, Eric Haag, and Mohamed Noor provided many helpful comments to this Introduction. For this, I am most thankful.

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Johnson, N.A. The Micro-evolution of development. Genetica 129, 1–5 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10709-006-0028-z

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