Evolutionary novelty key innovations (Müller-Wagner)

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Müller-Wagner 1991: 'novelty' = qualitatively new homologue not present in ancestor (e.g. turtle shell, insect wing, vertebrate jaw). Distinguished from 'modification' (changed homologue). Often correlated with adaptive-radiation…

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