paedomorphyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From paedo- +‎ -morphy, after paedomorphic.

名詞

paedomorphy ‎(uncountable)

1. The retention or emergence of juvenile characteristics in an adult organism.
   • 2006, Alan R Templeton, Population Genetics and Microevolutionary Theory, p. 481:

     The clade 4-1 salamanders recently lived in environments that would make paedomorphy unlikely, but now even when they are living in large, permanent ponds that induce paedomorphy in clade 4-2 salamanders, they are incapable of becoming paedomorphs.

   • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 744:

     Richard Wrangham has noted that the domestication of animals usually tames them by slowing down components of the developmental timetable to retain juvenile traits into adulthood, a process called pedomorphy or neoteny.

同意語

• paedomorphism
• paedomorphosis