When the interfield of EvoDevo arose in the early 1980s, its momentum was fueled by both the methodological advances in molecular biology and the explanatory deficits of the standard evolutionary paradigm, the Modern Synthesis. Whereas the methodological progress led to a proliferation of empirical research, the implications of EvoDevo for evolutionary theory often went unnoticed or were actively sidelined by the stakeholders of the received theory. Only with the progressive corrosion of the Synthesis framework due to challenging evidence from several more fields (genomics, epigenetics, physiology, behavior, etc.) the tide started to change, and EvoDevo has become one of the key players in the current redefinition of evolutionary theory.
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