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59 relations: Adjective, Ageing, Amphibian, Aphid, Ashley Montagu, Axolotl, Blue manakin, Bonobo, Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Companion dog, Concurrent estate, Cuteness, Del Thiessen, Delphacidae, Domestication, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary developmental biology, Fecundity, German language, Gerridae, Greek language, Ground beetle, Heterochrony, Human evolution, Inbreeding, J. B. S. Haldane, Julius Kollmann, Kalotermes flavicollis, Komondor, Larva, Linkage disequilibrium, Lithobates clamitans, Long-tailed manakin, Maremma Sheepdog, Metamorphosis, Morphology (biology), My Heart Leaps Up, Neoteny, Neoteny in humans, Northwestern salamander, Olm, Ontogeny and Phylogeny (book), Physiology, Primate, Puberty, Racism, Salamander, Selective breeding, Sexual dimorphism, Sexual selection, ..., Sexual selection in humans, Somatic (biology), St. Bernard (dog), Stephen Jay Gould, Strepsiptera, Tadpole, Tiger salamander, William Wordsworth, Working group (dogs). Expand index (9 more) »
Adjective
In linguistics, an adjective (abbreviated) is a describing word, the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified.
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Ageing
Ageing or aging (see spelling differences) is the process of becoming older.
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Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, tetrapod vertebrates of the class Amphibia.
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Aphid
Aphids are small sap-sucking insects and members of the superfamily Aphidoidea.
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Ashley Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu (June 28, 1905November 26, 1999), previously known as Israel Ehrenberg, was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.
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Axolotl
The axolotl (from āxōlōtl) also known as a Mexican salamander (Ambystoma mexicanum) or a Mexican walking fish, is a neotenic salamander, closely related to the tiger salamander.
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Blue manakin
The blue manakin or swallow-tailed manakin (Chiroxiphia caudata) is a small species of bird in the family Pipridae.
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Bonobo
The bonobo (Pan paniscus), formerly called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee, is an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan; the other is Pan troglodytes, or the common chimpanzee.
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Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is a small spaniel classed as a toy dog by The Kennel Club and the American Kennel Club.
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Companion dog
Companion dog usually describes a dog that does not work, providing only companionship as a pet, rather than usefulness by doing specific tasks.
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Concurrent estate
A concurrent estate or co-tenancy is a concept in property law which describes the various ways in which property is owned by more than one person at a time.
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Cuteness
Cuteness is a subjective term describing a type of attractiveness commonly associated with youth and appearance, as well as a scientific concept and analytical model in ethology, first introduced by Konrad Lorenz.
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Del Thiessen
Delbert Duane "Del" Thiessen is an American psychology professor emeritus whose research focused on evolutionary mechanisms of reproduction and social communication.
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Delphacidae
Delphacidae is a family of planthoppers containing about 2000 species, distributed worldwide.
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Domestication
Domestication is a sustained multi-generational relationship in which one group of organisms assumes a significant degree of influence over the reproduction and care of another group to secure a more predictable supply of resources from that second group.
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Evolutionary biology
Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes that produced the diversity of life on Earth, starting from a single common ancestor.
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Evolutionary developmental biology
Evolutionary developmental biology (informally, evo-devo) is a field of biological research that compares the developmental processes of different organisms to infer the ancestral relationships between them and how developmental processes evolved.
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Fecundity
In human demography and population biology, fecundity is the potential for reproduction of an organism or population, measured by the number of gametes (eggs), seed set, or asexual propagules.
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German language
German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language that is mainly spoken in Central Europe.
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Gerridae
The Gerridae are a family of insects in the order Hemiptera, commonly known as water striders, water bugs, pond skaters, water skippers, or jesus bugs.
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Greek language
Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
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Ground beetle
Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe.
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Heterochrony
In evolutionary developmental biology, heterochrony is a developmental change in the timing or rate of events, leading to changes in size and shape.
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Human evolution
Human evolution is the evolutionary process that led to the emergence of anatomically modern humans, beginning with the evolutionary history of primates – in particular genus Homo – and leading to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid family, the great apes.
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Inbreeding
Inbreeding is the production of offspring from the mating or breeding of individuals or organisms that are closely related genetically.
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J. B. S. Haldane
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (5 November 18921 December 1964) was an English scientist known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and in mathematics, where he made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics.
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Julius Kollmann
Julius Kollmann (24 February 1834, Holzheim am Forst – 24 June 1918, Basel) was a German anatomist, zoologist and anthropologist.
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Kalotermes flavicollis
Kalotermes flavicollis, the yellownecked dry-wood termite, is a species of dampwood termites belonging to the family Kalotermitidae, one of the most primitive families of termites.
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Komondor
The Komondor (in Hungarian, the plural form of komondor is komondorok), also known as the Hungarian sheepdog, is a large, white-coloured Hungarian breed of livestock guardian dog with a long, corded coat.
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Larva
A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.
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Linkage disequilibrium
In population genetics, linkage disequilibrium is the non-random association of alleles at different loci in a given population.
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Lithobates clamitans
The green frog (Lithobates clamitans or Rana clamitans) is a species of frog native to the eastern half of the United States and Canada.
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Long-tailed manakin
The long-tailed manakin (Chiroxiphia linearis) is a species of bird in the Pipridae family native to Central America where it inhabits both wet and dry tropical and subtropical forests.
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Maremma Sheepdog
The Maremma Sheepdog or Maremmano-Abruzzese Sheepdog (Cane da pastore Maremmano-Abruzzese), usually referred to simply as the Maremmano or Abruzzese Sheepdog, is a breed of livestock guardian dog indigenous to central Italy, particularly to Abruzzo and the Maremma region of Tuscany and Lazio.
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Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.
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Morphology (biology)
Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
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My Heart Leaps Up
"My Heart Leaps Up", also known as "The Rainbow", is a poem by the British Romantic poet William Wordsworth.
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Neoteny
Neoteny, (also called juvenilization)Montagu, A. (1989).
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Neoteny in humans
Neoteny in humans is the slowing or delaying of body development, compared to non-human primates, resulting in features such as a large head, a flat face, and relatively short arms and legs.
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Northwestern salamander
The northwestern salamander (Ambystoma gracile) inhabits the northwest Pacific Coast of North America.
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Olm
The olm or proteus (Proteus anguinus) is an aquatic salamander in the family Proteidae, the only exclusively cave-dwelling chordate species found in Europe.
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Ontogeny and Phylogeny (book)
Ontogeny and Phylogeny is a 1977 book on evolution by Stephen Jay Gould, in which the author explores the relationship between embryonic development (ontogeny) and biological evolution (phylogeny).
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Physiology
Physiology is the scientific study of normal mechanisms, and their interactions, which work within a living system.
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Primate
A primate is a mammal of the order Primates (Latin: "prime, first rank").
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Puberty
Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction.
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Racism
Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.
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Salamander
Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by a lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults.
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Selective breeding
Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.
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Sexual selection
Sexual selection is a mode of natural selection where members of one biological sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual selection).
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Sexual selection in humans
Sexual selection in humans concerns the concept of sexual selection, introduced by Charles Darwin as an element of his theory of natural selection, as it affects humans.
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Somatic (biology)
The term somatic is often used in biology to refer to the cells of the body in contrast to the germ line cells which usually give rise to the gametes (ovum or sperm).
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St. Bernard (dog)
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Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science.
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Strepsiptera
The Strepsiptera (translation: "twisted wing"', giving rise to the insects' common name, twisted-wing parasites) are an endopterygote order of insects with nine extant families making up about 600 species.
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Tadpole
A tadpole (also called a pollywog) is the larval stage in the life cycle of an amphibian, particularly that of a frog or toad.
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Tiger salamander
The tiger salamander or eastern tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) is a North American species of mole salamander.
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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
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Working group (dogs)
Working Group is the name of a breed group of dogs, used by kennel clubs to classify a defined collection of dog breeds.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny
