“To develop is to interact with the envionment.
To evolve is to alter these interactions in a heritable manner.”
Organisms and their form and function are the products of developmental processes operating in specific ecological conditions over evolutionary time. The nature of interactions between development (devo) and ecology (eco), and how these are shaped by, and are in turn shaping, evolutionary processes (evo), are the foci of Ecological and Evolutionary Developmental Biology (eco evo devo) and the objectives of our research. In particular, our group is focused on understanding how novel complex traits originate and diversify in development and evolution, and how this process is channeled by ecological conditions. But we also study the reverse – once in existence we ask how novel complex traits feed back on ecological and evolutionary processes, such as range expansions or adaptive radiations. Specifically, we structure our exploration around what we consider eight interdependent dimensions of innovation of diversification:
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