Heterochrony

Heterochrony, broadly defined, refers to evolutionary change in the rate or timing of development. The concept has long been central to evolutionary developmental biology and remai...

AbstractHeterochrony has often been proposed as a leading mechanism for macroevolutionary change in morphology of organisms, based simply on a relative shift in the timing of event...

Heterochrony is an enabling concept in evolution theory that metaphorically captures the mechanism of biologic change due to mechanisms of growth and development. The spatio-tempor...

This introduction returns to modernism’s incipient moments as the “Jonbar hinge” or pivot point for an alternative history of the period’s well-known time fixation. Using Lefebvre ...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, primitivism and paleomodernism appeared to reflect primarily those conditions out of which both modernism and SF have been shown to emerg...

This chapter links the period’s visions of the far future with modernism’s engagement with deep time in order to show how the big historicising that begins in the nineteenth centur...

The article focuses on Mieke Bal’s theoretical considerations of art in terms of film and movement in general. This cinematic frame offers her a conceptual framework for “thinking ...

In this introduction to our edited volume, we discuss the theoretical forebears that inform our guiding concept of “material temporalities” with an eye to the collections impact on...