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American Zoologist 1985 25(3):689-694; doi:10.1093/icb/25.3.689
© 1985 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
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Vertebrate Morphology: Tale of a Phoenix1

CARL GANS
1Division of Biological Sciences, The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1048

The last 25 years have seen a renaissance in the use of structural principles in biological study. Analytical methods have been refined and new concepts introduced. Systematic applications have imposed new demands because cladistic methods have emphasized the need for correct interpretations of individual characters. Developmental approaches now permit association of characters; however, newly described genetic mechanisms may pose questions about structural criteria forhomology. Structural characters prove significant, both in evaluation of the possible roles of morphological characteristics and in establishing the reality and level of adaptation. Morphology, ever more, is an area of active researches promising significant results.


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