evolutionary developmental biology
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field of biology
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Homologous Hox genes in such different animals as insects and vertebrates control embryonic development and hence the form of adult bodies. These genes have been highly conserved through hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
Evolutionary developmental biology, informally known as evo-devo, is a field of biological research that compares the developmental processes of different organisms to infer how developmental processes evolved.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “evolutionary developmental biology” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.