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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!
Shelob could well belong to a neotenic neuropteran species in which cocoon-spinning ability has been directed towards prey capture.
Tiger salamanders often become neotenic (retaining their larval forms) even reproducing as larvae, and only rarely metamorphosing into terrestrial adults. Adaptations of desert amphibians and reptiles
Maybe yellow blotches, wrinkles, and phantom fetuses really get a pubescent neotenic mole salamander in the mood for love. Archive 2007-12-01
I do think that more derived dogs are more neotenic a la the Russian fox experiment still going on I think. Dog Origins