Department of Philosophy and Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Dev Psychobiol. 2013 Jan;55(1):22-32. doi: 10.1002/dev.21087.
The integration of concepts from evolutionary developmental biology, such as the homology concept, into developmental psychobiology has great potential. However, evolutionary developmental biology is an attempt to integrate evolutionary and developmental explanation and developmental psychobiology has traditionally been concerned to avoid conflating these two kinds of explanation. This article examines a recent attempt to explain development in terms of "inherited information." The resulting explanation is an evolutionary explanation of development of a kind typical of evolutionary developmental biology. But its proponent mistakes it for an actual developmental explanation. Any integration of evolutionary developmental biology and developmental psychobiology should pay close attention to longstanding concerns about conflating evolutionary and developmental explanations.
进化发展生物学的概念，如同源性概念，与发展心理生物学的整合具有很大的潜力。然而，进化发展生物学是一种试图整合进化和发展解释的尝试，而发展心理生物学传统上一直避免将这两种解释混为一谈。本文考察了最近一次试图用“遗传信息”来解释发育的尝试。由此产生的解释是对发展的进化解释，这是进化发展生物学的一种典型解释。但它的支持者却将其误认为是一种实际的发展解释。进化发展生物学与发展心理生物学的任何整合都应密切关注长期以来对混淆进化和发展解释的担忧。
