Dollo's law of irreversibility (also known as Dollo's law and Dollo's principle), proposed in 1893 by Belgian paleontologist Louis Dollo states that, "an...
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Biological rules (redirect from Laws of biology)
with decreasing temperature. Dollo's law of irreversibility, proposed in 1893 by French-born Belgian paleontologist Louis Dollo states that "an organism never...
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Devolution (biology) (redirect from Theory of Degeneration)
have small brains. Dollo's law of irreversibility, first stated in 1893 by the palaeontologist Louis Dollo, denies the possibility of devolution. The evolutionary...
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Phylogenetics (redirect from History of phylogenetics)
recapitulation theory. 1893, Dollo's Law of Character State Irreversibility, precursor concept. Dollo's Law of Irreversibility states that "an organism never...
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rather than devolving, removing or "redesigning" a trait (i.e. Dollo's law of irreversibility)—leaving the species hosting the trait struggling to keep up...
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by Louis Dollo Stephen Jay Gould (1970), "Dollo on Dollo's Law: Irreversibility and the Status of Evolutionary Laws", Journal of the History of Biology...
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Orthogenesis (category History of evolutionary biology)
the Result of the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics According to the Laws of Organic Growth. He used examples such as the evolution of the horse...
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Charles R. Marshall (category University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty)
Meliorchis). In 1993, he found empirical evidence for exceptions to Dollo's law of irreversibility with Elizabeth and Rudolf Raff. His studies on diversity through...
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assertion that birds are descended from reptiles, Heilmann cites Dollo's law of irreversibility as the primary reason why he believes birds cannot be descended...
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Gastrotheca guentheri (category Amphibians of the Andes)
re-evolved after being absent for over 200 million years, challenging Dollo's law. Re-evolution of teeth in the lower jaw may have been made easier because the...
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