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Re: flowering 'juvenilies'

From: StellrJ at aol.com on 2000.06.21 at 02:59:48(4868)
In a message dated Mon, 19 Jun 2000 5:33:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Jody
Haynes write:
> So, what you are saying is, paedomorphosis is when an adult looks or acts
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> like a juvenile, while neoteny is when a juvenile is capable of reproducing?
Yes and no. Neoteny is the *process* of retardation of somatic maturation
relative to sexual maturation, whereas paedomorphosis is the *possession* of
juvenile traits in an adult.
Does this help?
Jody
Yes, very much. You are distingushing an outward manifestation from the
process that causes it.
Jason Hernandez
Naturalist-at-Large

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