The Cradle of Evo-Devo. Memorial “Ten years without Pere Alberch” 21-24 May 2008, Valencia. Evolutionary developmental biology is often said to have undertaken the missing synthesis between two great historical traditions: evolutionary morphology and developmental genetics. Nevertheless, Pere Alberch’s conception of development as a dynamical system and the subsequent view of evolution as the result […]

I Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Biología Evolutiva (SESBE),  Tarragona. Tras el doble triunfo de la embriología experimental y la genética de poblaciones, el vínculo entre evolución y desarrollo modernamente anudado por el Recapitulacionismo volvió a deshacerse: en el campo de la embriología, el enfoque experimental decidió ignorar la evolución, mientras que la filogenética […]

Session: The Alberch Variations The study of the relationships between evolution and development lived a long eclipse after the triumph of experimental embryology and the rise of population genetics. Pere Alberch belongs to the series of biologists who aimed to integrate development within an incomplete evolutionary synthesis. He was well aware of the long history […]