Evo-Devo
n.— «Since the early 1990s, he has been instrumental in the reintegration of development and evolution into Evolutionary Developmental Biology, also known as “Evo-Devo.”» —“Luc Devroye, Brian Hall, Linda Hutcheon, Margaret Lock And Nahum Sonenberg To Receive $100,000 Killam Prizes For 2005” in Ottawa Government of Canada Mar. 30, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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