"trait" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Evolution by retaining juvenile traits as an adult is known as neoteny.
- Other theorists have argued that neoteny has not been the main cause of human evolution, because humans only retain some juvenile traits, while relinquishing others.
- It's the retarding of development so juvenile traits are retained in adulthood.
- Therefore, the lack of tusks could be a juvenile trait instead of a secondary sexual characteristic, weakening the case for sexual dimorphism.
- Valledor de Lozoya has instead suggested that the light plumage was a juvenile trait, a result of bleaching of old taxidermy specimens, or simply artistic license.
- This retention of juvenile traits, called neoteny, is a fairly common trait within the genus Eurycea.
- In 1998 Dodson and Allison Tumarkin argued that the bone structure could also be explained by species-specific pedomorphosis, the retention by adults of juvenile traits.
- Bonaparte (1996) interpreted the relatively large orbital opening in the skull as a juvenile trait.
- It has been suggested that this species exhibits pedomorphosis, that is, they retain many juvenile traits into adulthood.
- Possible juvenile traits included the lack of a notarium, being a fusion of the front dorsal vertebrae, and a unfused scapula and coracoid.
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