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- Title
Hybridization in the evolution of animal form and life-cycle.
- Authors
WILLIAMSON, DONALD I.
- Abstract
Examples of animal development that pose problems for Darwinian evolution by ‘descent with modification’ but are consistent with ‘larval transfer’ are discussed. Larval transfer claims that genes that prescribe larval forms originated in adults in other taxa, and have been transferred by hybridization. I now suggest that not only larvae but also components of animals have been transferred by hybridization. The ontogeny of some Cambrian metazoans without true larvae is discussed. The probable sequence of acquisition of larvae by hemichordates and echinoderms is presented. I contend (1) that there were no true larvae until after the establishment of classes in the respective phyla, (2) that early animals hybridized to produce chimeras of parts of dissimilar species, (3) that the Cambrian explosion resulted from many such hybridizations, and (4) that modern animal phyla and classes were produced by such early hybridizations, rather than by the gradual accumulation of specific differences. © 2006 The Linnean Society of London, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2006, 148, 585–602.
- Subjects
SPECIES hybridization; EVOLUTIONARY theories; PHILOSOPHY of nature; DEVELOPMENTAL biology; ONTOGENY
- Publication
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2006, Vol 148, Issue 4, p585
- ISSN
0024-4082
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00236.x