Hi, I'm Becca Young, an evolutionary developmental biologist at UT Austin. I study the genomic and developmental origins of phenotypic variation and test evolutionary hypotheses of phenotypic convergence in embryogenesis, morphology, and behavior across vertebrate systems. #evodevo #evolution #development #bioinformatics #transcriptomics #comparativebiology #phenotypicplasticity and #datasterwardship #introduction

@BeccaYoung I love the quote on your profile:

"Evolution is the control of development by ecology.”- Leigh Van Valen

what a great #EvoDevo statement

@clementkent
1973 Science. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1736740
"A plausible argument could be made that evolution is the control of development by ecology. Oddly neither area has figured importantly in evolutionary theory since Darwins who contributed much to each. This is being slowly repaired for ecology, although the festschrift gives no evidence of it, but development is still severely neglected notwithstanding an interesting paper here by Gould on the evolution of growth in the coiled oyster Gryphaea.
Review: Festschrift on JSTOR

Leigh van Valen, Festschrift, Science, New Series, Vol. 180, No. 4085 (May 4, 1973), p. 488