neotenic

How To Use neotenic In A Sentence

• neotenic development
• Humans are neotenic apes, ostriches are neotenic birds; we retain useful infantile characteristics into adulthood.
• Althouse: "Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love. "Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love."
• Humans would have selected (and been more able to control) animals with neotenic variations because they were more tractable.
• However, the young man can take advantage of the fact that older men are also of the generation before, who are less neotenic and look more like apes.
• Sermonti therefore argues that neotenic organisms - in which juvenile traits persist into adulthood, e.g. gills in adult salamanders - must be archaic, because their features appear earlier in development.
• Adults sirens are aquatic and neotenic, with lengths ranging from 4-36 inches.
• This certainly appears to be the case in neotenic salamanders, for example.
• Direct-developing and normal biphasic frogs have slightly larger genomes, followed by biphasic, then direct-developing, and finally facultatively and then obligately neotenic salamanders.
• Like the cute but dangerous Gloomy Bear who is adorable, neotenic and pink -- but a bear! Electric Kawaii!