{"id":7722,"date":"2019-05-22T15:59:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/diachronic_biology\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:59:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:59:56","slug":"diachronic_biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/diachronic_biology\/","title":{"rendered":"Diachronic biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A neologism devised by <a href=\"http:\/\/icb.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/40\/5\/729.full\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/icb.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/40\/5\/729.full&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Conrad H. Waddington<\/a> (1903-1975) to signal his attempt at integrating genetics, embryology and evolutionary biology into a unified developmental science based on dynamical principles. &nbsp;According to diachronic biology, evolutionary change is engendered by heritable alterations in development, with stabilising selection within the embryo being followed by normative selection on the adult. &nbsp;It can be considered as the forerunner of current attempts at creating an evolutionary developmental biology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See Dynamical systems theory (development and evolution), <a href=\"embryology\">Embryology<\/a>, <a href=\"epigenetic_landscape\">Epigenetic landscape<\/a>, <a href=\"epigenetics\">Epigenetics<\/a>, <a href=\"evolutionary_biology\">Evolutionary biology<\/a>, <a href=\"evolutionary_developmental_biology\">Evolutionary developmental biology<\/a>, <a href=\"genetic_assimilation\">Genetic assimilation<\/a>, Theory of natural selection <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neologism devised by Conrad H. Waddington (1903-1975) to signal his attempt at integrating genetics, embryology and evolutionary biology into a unified developmental science based on dynamical principles. &nbsp;According to diachronic biology, evolutionary change is engendered by heritable alterations in development, with stabilising selection within the embryo being followed by normative selection on the adult. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/diachronic_biology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Diachronic biology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}