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Definitions
Retention of juvenile features into adulthood.
Word origin
From German Neotenie, coined in 1884 by anatomist Julius Kollmann from Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “young”) + τείνειν (teínein, “to tense”).
Used in a sentence
“Most amphibians are aquatic only while young, but some amphibians with neoteny remain aquatic even as adults.”
“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.”
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