Published date: May 03 2018

Journal Title: KnE Life Sciences

Issue title: The Second International Conference on Amphibian and Reptiles Anomalies and Pathology

Pages: 145–149

DOI: 10.18502/kls.v4i3.2116

M A Shishkin - sch-oks@mail.ru

An evident non-randomness in the variability of living organisms is caused by the integrity of their developmental systems, which undergo the evolutionary transformation as a whole. The commonest manifestation of such orderliness is the occurrence of homologous variations in related forms. The evolution of the dominant group of early amphibians (Temnospondyli) provides numerous examples of this phenomenon.

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