 Eugenia del Pino established an entire school of Biology in Ecuador focused in evolutionary developmental adaptations.Eugenia del Pino introduced the field of Developmental Biology to Ecuador and for a long time the PUCE, her home institution, was the only University in Ecuador with a theoretical and practical undergraduate course in this subject, and her laboratory was the only highly productive Developmental Biology research laboratory.Her research programs were mainly driven by undergraduate students, as no graduate programs were available in Ecuador at the time.