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In the early twentieth century, studies of heredity, development and evolution went in separate directions. Although there were never any wholly impassable barriers between the resultant disciplines, each developed its own terminology, groups of focal problems, and peculiar perspective. In short, development, evolution, and genetics evolved into fairly independent biological disciplines. The resultant theoretical lacunae and barriers to communication are of quite general interest. So are the numerous attempts to weld synthetic or integrative theories bridging these disciplines.
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Burian, R.M. (1986). On Integrating the Study of Evolution and of Development. In: Bechtel, W. (eds) Integrating Scientific Disciplines. Science and Philosophy, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9435-1_12
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