- 🧪 Deep homology, reuse and repurposing of ancient gene families and changing the pathways and targets they control in diverse lineages- this is quintessential #evo-devo and also exemplifies Emergent Evolutionary Potential and the Adjacent Possible— Co-option is also an illuminating concept here.
- Butterfly eyespots evolved via cooption of an ancestral gene-regulatory network that also patterns antennae, legs, and wings pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35169073/ #EvoDevo
