Developmental processes are essential to explaining evolution itself

Evidence

Unlike the neo-Darwinian view, which rejects development as significant for its program to understand genetic transmission (Dawkins, 1982), from an evo-devo perspective, the development of bodies is essential for understanding how evolution occurs (Amundson, 2005). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 390