Those of us lucky enough to have become, by whatever route, students of the interdisciplinary field of evo-devo' have a sense of history in the making - a feeling that a new synthesis is being born in biology, even if the birth is painfully slow. Indeed, many would say it is a rebirth: of comparative embryology in the age of the gene. The original birth, at the hands of Karl Ernst von Baer and Ernst Haeckel in the nineteenth century, and its late-twentieth-century equivalent, with Stephen Jay Gould's book Ontogeny and Phylogeny and the discovery of the homeobox, are connected by much intermediate work. This is made clear in From Embryology to Evo-Devo, edited by Manfred Laubichler and Jane Maienschein. The book tells the history of this work, which has not been told prominently enough before.
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机译：我们这些人很幸运，无论通过哪种途径，都已经成为evo-devo跨学科领域的学生，对他们的发展具有历史感-一种新的合成正在生物学中诞生的感觉，即使出生是痛苦的慢。确实，许多人会说这是重生：该基因时代的比较胚胎学。最初的诞生是在19世纪由卡尔·恩斯特·冯·贝尔（Karl Ernst von Baer）和恩斯特·海克尔（Ernst Haeckel）掌管的，其后的二十世纪末期与斯蒂芬·杰伊·古尔德（Stephen Jay Gould）的著作《本体论与系统发育》（Ontogeny and Phylogeny）以及同源异形盒的发现相联系。这在Manfred Laubichler和Jane Maienschein编辑的《从胚胎学到Evo-Devo》中有明确说明。这本书讲述了这项工作的历史，以前还没有足够明显地讲述过。
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