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  1. Functional morphology and evolutionary biology.P. Dullemeijer - 1980 - Acta Biotheoretica 29 (3):151-250.
    In this study the relationship between functional morpholoy and evolutionary biology is analysed by confronting the main concepts in both disciplines.Rather than only discussing this connection theoretically, the analysis is carried out by introducing important practical and experimental studies, which use aspects from both disciplines. The mentioned investigations are methodologically analysed and the consequences for extensions of the relationship are worked out. It can be shown that both disciplines have a large domain of their own and also share a large (...)
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  • Lenkende und limitierende faktoren in der evolution.Wolf -Ernst Reif - 1975 - Acta Biotheoretica 24 (3-4):136-162.
    It is shown in a literature review, that in the Typostrophic Theory autonomous mechanisms in the organism are considered as the factors which play a decisive role in orienting and controlling the evolutionary process. Selection is a controlling factor of only minor importance. The Synthetic Theory, on the other side, says that phylogenetic changes are not random or controlled by “internal factors” but can always be considered as adaptive remodellings. They are achieved by selection acting on the variation within populations. (...)
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  • Optimierung und ökonomisierung im kontext Von evolutionstheorie und phylogenetischer rekonstruktion.Klaus Bonik, Wolfgang Friedrich Gutmann & D. Stefan Peters - 1977 - Acta Biotheoretica 26 (2):75-119.
    The meaning of optimality and economy in phylogenetics and evolutionary biology is discussed.It can be shown that the prevailing concepts of optimality and economy are equivocal as they are not based on strict theoretical positions and as they have a variable meaning in different theoretical contexts. The ideas of optimality and economy can be considered to be identical with the expectation of a relatively simple order in a particular field of study. Although there exists no way of inferring one or (...)
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  • Mechanical constraints canalizing the evolutionary transformation of tetrapod Limbs.Dieter Stefan Peters - 1985 - Acta Biotheoretica 34 (2-4):157-164.
    A reconstruction of the anagenetic transformations from fins to tetrapod limbs is represented considering the self-evident mechanical constraints which must have limited the construction and thus the function and the transformation.
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