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Ecological causation of heterochrony: a test and implications for evolutionary theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Michael L. McKinney
Michael L. McKinney*
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Department of Geological Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1410
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Abstract

Biometric analyses of the ontogenies of 31 species of fossil echinoids support a hypothesized relationship between regulatory gene changes and environmental stability. In 15 of 17 pairs of related species, the larger species, undergoing slower (neotenic) and/or prolonged (hypermorphic) growth, apparently inhabited the stabler environment. If true, this relationship connects biological processes at a number of levels and explains or agrees with some important macroevolutionary observations, such as onshore evolutionary innovation and Cope's Rule.

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Paleobiology , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , Summer 1986 , pp. 282 - 289
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