Evolutionary_developmental_biology

# Evolutionary developmental biology ## MicroSim spec - **Recommended sim type:** growth & decay - **Microsimmability score:** 62/100 - **Layout:** drawing region (canvas) on top; control region (sliders/buttons) below. ### Parameters (tunable controls) - `Growth rate` - `Gene-switch threshold` - `Patterning steps` ### What animates A model organism's body plan unfolds as developmental switches and growth rates change. ### Learning objective Show how developmental rules shape morphology over growth. ## Links (Wikipedia order)  `Abiogenesis` · [[Adaptation]] · `Adaptive_radiation` · `Adrian_Desmond` · `Aequorea_victoria` · `Alan_Turing` · `Alexander_Kovalevsky` · `Allopatric_speciation` · `Alternatives_to_Darwinian_evolution` · `Altruism_(biology)` · `Anagenesis` · `Animal` · `Anisogamy` · `Annelid` · `Annual_Review_of_Neuroscience` · `Antagonistic_pleiotropy_hypothesis` · `Antibody` · `Aristotle` · `Aristotle's_biology` · `Armand_Marie_Leroi` · `Arthropod` · `Arthropod_head_problem` · `Astrobiology` · `Baldwin_effect` · `Barnacle` · `Base_pair` · `Bilateria` · `Biodiversity` · `Biogeography` · `Biological_life_cycle` · `Biological_process` · `Bird` · `Blending_inheritance` · `Blind_spot_(vision)` · `Body_plan` · `Bone_morphogenetic_protein` · `Butterfly` · `C._H._Waddington` · `Cambridge_University_Press` · `Canalisation_(genetics)` · `Canidae` · `Carl_Linnaeus` · `Cat_gap` · `Catagenesis_(biology)` · `Catalysis` · `Catastrophism` · `Cell_(journal)` · `Cell_adhesion` · `Cell_nucleus` · `Cell_signaling` · `Centipede` · `Cephalopod` · `Charles_Darwin` · `Cheating_(biology)` · `Christiane_Nüsslein-Volhard` · `Chromosome` · `Cis-regulatory_element` · `Clade` · `Cladistics` · `Cladogenesis` · `Clam` · `Classical_antiquity` · `Coevolution` · `Common_descent` · `Compound_eye` · `Conserved_sequence` · `Control_loop` · `Convergent_evolution` · `Cooperation_(evolution)` · `Cospeciation` · `Cowrie` · `Cultural_evolution` · `Cultural_group_selection` · `DLX_gene_family` · `Darwinism` · `David_Hume` · `Death` · `Deep_homology` · `Deep_time` · `Developmental_bias` · `Developmental_biology` · `Developmental_plasticity` · `Dialogues_Concerning_Natural_Religion` · `Dinosaur` · `Divergent_evolution` · `Domestication_of_the_dog` · `Dominance_(genetics)` · `Drosophila` · `Drosophila_embryogenesis` · `Drosophila_melanogaster` · `Dual_inheritance_theory` · `Earliest_known_life_forms` · `Ecological_genetics` · `Ecological_speciation` · [[Ecology]] · `Ediacaran` · `Edward_B._Lewis` · `Elephant` · `Elizabeth_Pennisi` · `Embryology` · `Empathy` · `Empedocles` · `Endless_Forms_Most_Beautiful_(book)` · `Endomembrane_system` · `Engrailed_(gene)` · `Enzyme` · `Enzyme_inhibitor` · `Epigenesis_(biology)` · `Epigenetics` · `Epistasis` · `Erasmus_Darwin` · `Eric_F._Wieschaus` · `Ernst_Haeckel` · `Ernst_Mayr` · `Escherichia_coli` · `Eukaryote` · `Eva_Jablonka` · `Evidence_of_common_descent` · `Evo-devo_gene_toolkit` · [[Evolution]] · `Evolution_&_Development` · `Evolution_of_Macropodidae` · `Evolution_of_ageing` · `Evolution_of_bacteria` · `Evolution_of_biological_complexity` · `Evolution_of_birds` · `Evolution_of_brachiopods` · `Evolution_of_butterflies` · `Evolution_of_cells` · `Evolution_of_cephalopods` · `Evolution_of_cetaceans` · `Evolution_of_color_vision` · `Evolution_of_color_vision_in_primates` · `Evolution_of_emotion` · `Evolution_of_eusociality` · `Evolution_of_fish` · `Evolution_of_flagella` · `Evolution_of_fungi` · `Evolution_of_insects` · `Evolution_of_lemurs` · `Evolution_of_mammalian_auditory_ossicles` · `Evolution_of_mammals` · `Evolution_of_molluscs` · `Evolution_of_morality` · `Evolution_of_nervous_systems` · `Evolution_of_primates` · `Evolution_of_reptiles` · `Evolution_of_sexual_reproduction` · `Evolution_of_sirenians` · `Evolution_of_snake_venom` · `Evolution_of_spiders` · `Evolution_of_tetrapods` · `Evolution_of_the_brain` · `Evolution_of_the_eye` · `Evolution_of_the_horse` · `Evolution_of_the_wolf` · [[Evolutionarily_stable_strategy]] · `Evolutionary_arms_race` · `Evolutionary_biology` · `Evolutionary_ethics` · `Evolutionary_history_of_plants` · `Evolutionary_ideas_of_the_Scientific_Revolution_and_Enlightenment` · `Evolutionary_invasion_analysis` · `Evolutionary_landscape` · `Evolutionary_medicine` · `Evolutionary_mismatch` · `Evolutionary_pressure` · `Evolutionary_taxonomy` · `Evolutionary_tinkering` · `Evolutionary_tradeoff` · [[Evolvability]] · `Exaptation` · `Extended_evolutionary_synthesis` · `Extinction` · `Extinction_event` · `Eyespot_(mimicry)` · `Facilitated_variation` · `Fish` · `Fisher's_principle` · `Fitness_(biology)` · `Fitness_landscape` · `Fluorescence` · `François_Jacob` · `Fritz_Müller` · `Frog` · `Gap_gene` · `Gastropod` · `Gastrulation` · `Gavin_de_Beer` · `Gene` · `Gene-centered_view_of_evolution` · `Gene_flow` · `Gene_regulatory_network` · `Genetic_architecture` · `Genetic_assimilation` · `Genetic_drift` · `Genetic_variation` · `Genetics` · `Gene–environment_correlation` · `Gene–environment_interaction` · `Genomic_imprinting` · `Genotype` · `Genotype–phenotype_distinction` · `Geophilomorpha` · `Gerd_B._Müller` · `Giraffe` · `Great_chain_of_being` · `Green_fluorescent_protein` · `Gregor_Mendel` · `Group_selection` · `Hair` · `Handicap_principle` · `Harvard_University_Press` · `Hedgehog_signaling_pathway` · `Heliconius_erato` · `Heliconius_melpomene` · `Heredity` · `Heritability` · `Heterochrony` · `Heterotopy` · `History_of_evolutionary_thought` · `History_of_life` · `History_of_molecular_evolution` · `History_of_paleontology` · `Hologenome_theory_of_evolution` · `Homeobox` · `Homeosis` · `Homeotic_gene` · `Homology_(biology)` · `Hox_gene` · `Human` · `Human_evolution` · `Human_evolutionary_developmental_biology` · `Human_eye` · `Hybrid_(biology)` · `Hybrid_speciation` · `Hyena` · `Immune_system` · `Inbreeding_avoidance` · `Inclusive_fitness` · `Index_of_evolutionary_biology_articles` · `Insect` · `Introduction_to_evolution` · `Inversion_(evolutionary_biology)` · `Jacques_Monod` · `James_A._Secord` · `Jean-Pierre_Changeux` · `Johann_Friedrich_Meckel` · `John_Gribbin` · `Journal_of_Experimental_Zoology` · `Just_So_Stories` · `Karl_Ernst_von_Baer` · `Kin_recognition` · [[Kin_selection]] · `Lac_operon` · `Lac_repressor` · `Lactose` · `Lamarckism` · `Lancelet` · `Larva` · `Last_universal_common_ancestor` · `Ligand_(biochemistry)` · `Lithobiomorpha` · `Lobster` · `Macroevolution` · `Mammal` · `Mark_Ridley_(zoologist)` · `Mary_Jane_West-Eberhard` · `Mate_choice` · `Maternal_effect` · `Mating_type` · `Mendelian_inheritance` · `Messenger_RNA` · `Metabolism` · `Metamerism_(biology)` · `Michael_Levine_(biologist)` · `Microevolution` · `Missing_heritability_problem` · `Model_organism` · `Models_of_DNA_evolution` · `Modern_synthesis_(20th_century)` · `Modularity_(biology)` · `Molecular_biology` · `Molecular_evolution` · `Molecular_genetics` · `Monogamy_in_animals` · `Morphogen` · `Morphogenesis` · `Morphogenetic_field` · `Morphology_(biology)` · `Mosaic_evolution` · `Multicellular_organism` · `Mutation` · `Mutationism` · `Mutualism_(biology)` · `Müllerian_mimicry` · `Natural_selection` · `Nature_versus_nurture` · `Neo-Darwinism` · `Neoteny` · `Neutral_network_(evolution)` · `Neutral_theory_of_molecular_evolution` · `Niche_construction` · `Nobel_Prize_in_Physiology_or_Medicine` · `Nonadaptive_radiation` · `Nonecological_speciation` · `Notch_signaling_pathway` · `Notochord` · `On_Growth_and_Form` · `On_the_Origin_of_Species` · `Ontogeny_and_Phylogeny` · `Operon` · `Optic_nerve` · `Organ_(biology)` · `Organism` · `Origin_and_function_of_meiosis` · `Origin_of_avian_flight` · `Origin_of_birds` · `Origination_of_Organismal_Form` · `Orthogenesis` · `Outline_of_evolution` · `PAX6` · `Pair-rule_gene` · `Panspermia` · `Parallel_evolution` · `Parameter` · `Parapatric_speciation` · `Parental_investment` · `Parent–offspring_conflict` · [[Pattern_formation]] · `Pax_genes` · `Peripatric_speciation` · `Phenotype` · `Phenotypic_plasticity` · `Philip_Ball` · `Phyletic_gradualism` · `Phylogenetic_tree` · `Phylogenetics` · `Phylum` · `Physics_(Aristotle)` · `Plant` · `Plant_evolutionary_developmental_biology` · `Plastid` · `Pleiotropy` · `Point_mutation` · `Pollinator-mediated_selection` · `Polymorphism_(biology)` · `Polyphenism` · `Population_(biology)` · `Population_genetics` · `Programmed_cell_death` · `Promoter_(genetics)` · `Protocell` · `Punctuated_equilibrium` · `Quantitative_genetics` · `Reaction_norm` · [[Reaction–diffusion_system]] · `Recapitulation_theory` · `Receptor_(biochemistry)` · `Reciprocal_altruism` · `Recombinant_DNA` · `Red_Queen_hypothesis` · `Regulation_of_gene_expression` · `Reinforcement_(speciation)` · `Reptile` · `Retina` · `Rhodopsin` · `Richard_Lewontin` · `Robustness_(evolution)` · `Romanticism_in_evolution_theory` · `Ronald_Fisher` · `Rugby_ball` · `Saltation_(biology)` · [[Science_(journal)]] · `Scott_F._Gilbert` · `Sea_urchin` · `Sean_B._Carroll` · [[Second_law_of_thermodynamics]] · `Segmentation_(biology)` · `Selective_breeding` · `Sequence_space_(evolution)` · `Sessility_(motility)` · `Sex-determination_system` · `Sexual_dimorphism` · `Sexual_selection` · `Sexual_selection_in_flowering_plants` · `Sexual_selection_in_fungi` · `Shrimp` · `Signalling_theory` · `Snake` · `Social_selection` · `Spandrel_(biology)` · `Speciation` · `Species` · `Species_complex` · `Squid` · `Starfish` · `Stephen_Jay_Gould` · `Structural_gene` · `Structuralism_(biology)` · `Stuart_Newman` · `Symbiogenesis` · `Symbiosis` · `Sympatric_speciation` · `Systematics` · `Taxon` · `Teleology_in_biology` · `Teleonomy` · `Tempo_and_Mode_in_Evolution` · `The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphogenesis` · `The_eclipse_of_Darwinism` · `Theistic_evolution` · `Transcription_factor` · `Transcriptional_regulation` · `Transgenerational_epigenetic_inheritance` · `Transgressive_segregation` · `Transitional_fossil` · `Transmutation_of_species` · `Trivers–Willard_hypothesis` · `Tube_feet` · `Tunicate` · `Uniformitarianism` · `Unit_of_selection` · `Urbilaterian` · `Vertebra` · `Vertebrate` · `Vicar_of_Bray_(scientific_hypothesis)` · `Viral_evolution` · `Vitalism` · `William_McGinnis` · `Wing` · `Yeast` · `Zoology` · `Étienne_Serres` > p5.js MicroSim stub · part of Systems Thinking · [Wikipedia source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_developmental_biology) > Relation: subfield of systems thinking. ## Concept summary 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. ## Build checklist - [ ] Claim it: set `status: in-progress` + `lease` + `leased_at` - [ ] Write the child page explaining the concept (tie it back to systems thinking) - [ ] Finalize parameter ranges and defaults - [ ] Implement the p5.js sketch (drawing + control regions) - [ ] Add caption + the learning objective on the page - [ ] Set `status: done` ## p5.js sketch ```javascript // MicroSim: Evolutionary developmental biology let controls = {}; function setup() { // createCanvas(...); create sliders for the parameters above. } function draw() { // background(...); read controls; render growth & decay; respond live. } ``` --- Back to Systems Thinking · Wikipedia: [Evolutionary developmental biology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_developmental_biology) ---  ## Semiotic profile > *The semiotic universals this article invokes, machine-derived from the crossref — **unverified** (born so). Populated 2026-07-06 for the Systems room.* **Universals (5):** 🟡 system (11) · 🟡 science (6) · 🟢 exponential (3) · 🟡 switch (1) · 🟢 threshold (1) **Enter by sign:** Systems Semiotic Gateway · Alphabetum · Icon Registry · ← Systems Portal  ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_developmental_biology) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Evolutionary_developmental_biology) ## Previous hub tags Tree parents: [[Complex_system]] · [[Cybernetics]] · [[Emergence]] · [[Feedback]] · [[Self-organization]] · [[Systems_science]] · [[Systems_theory]]. Legacy hubs: none. --- *Sources: 2 legacy notes. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*