Ontogenetic depth
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In order to come to greater scientific understanding of biology and evolution, there must be advances in metrics of biological complexity. In order to quantify the increase in biological complexity, proposals for these metrics are emerging from the scientific community. Among these proposals, ontogenetic depth is being developed by Paul Nelson and Marcus Ross. Ontogenetic depth is a metric related to the number of cell divisions between the egg up to reproductive maturity in a metazoan organism.
Ontogenetic depth serves to supplement the array of considerations when developing experiments of both intelligent design and atelic evolution. This metric could provide a structure on which evo-devo experiments can be framed.
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- Ontogenetic depth as a complexity depth as a complexity metric for the Cambrian Explosion -- Marcus Ross
- Ontogenetic Depth and the Origin of Animals -- ISCID Online Biology Chat "Discussion Paper." 5 February 2003.
- Transcript from ISCID Live Chat with Paul Nelson -- February 5, 2003 9:00-10:15 PM Eastern
- Problems with characterizing the protostome-deuterostome ancestor -- Paul Nelson and Marcus Ross
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