" Evo Devo has not just provided a critical missing piece of the Modern Synthesis - embryology - and integrated it with molecular genetics and traditional elements such as paleontology. The wholly unexpected nature of some of its key discoveries and the unprecedented quality and depth of evidence it has provided toward settling previously unresolved questions bestow it with a revolutionary character. "

― Sean B. Carroll , Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom