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- (teínein, "to stretch, to extend"). The adjective is either "neotenic" or "neotenous". For the opposite of "neotenic", different authorities use either "gerontomorphic"...
- evolution for neotenous facial traits in women by men with the resulting neoteny in male faces being a "by-product" of ****ual selection for neotenous female...
- Neolithic times. The Alpine race was described as having moderate stature, neotenous features,[dubious – discuss] and specific cranial measurements, such as...
- Betty Boop illustrates some human features which are sometimes labeled as neotenous, such as a large head, short arms and legs relative to total height, and...
- cuter and "inoffensive". Gould said that the neotenous changes to Mickey's form were similar to the neotenous changes that occurred in human evolution. Nancy...
- has shown that the uncanny valley effect could be eliminated by adding neotenous, cartoonish features to entities that had formerly caused an uncanny valley...
- LA W****ly. Newman, Judie (2007), Chapter 6: 'Southern apes: McCarthy's neotenous killers', p. 142. Mc****n; Csaki (2010), Part 3, Chapter: No Country for...
- immatures. As a result the caste system of termites consists mostly of neotenous or juvenile individuals that undertake the most labor in the colony, which...
- overall size and adaptation to carnivory; the skull displays far fewer neotenous traits than in other foxes, and its facial area is more developed. It...
- Ostorhinchus neotes, the mini cardinalfish, is a species of ray-finned fish, a cardinalfish, from the family Apogonidae. It is found in the western central...