Heterotopy
Evolutionary change in the spatial arrangement of an animal's embryonic development / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Heterotopia.
Heterotopy is an evolutionary change in the spatial arrangement of an animal's embryonic development, complementary to heterochrony, a change to the rate or timing of a development process. It was first identified by Ernst Haeckel in 1866 and has remained less well studied than heterochrony.