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Dimorphism: a difference in form, color, etc, between individuals of the same species, characterizing two distinct types: may be seasonal, sexual or geographic.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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Dimorphism had been translated into several languages, and a furious polemic had broken out over it.
The Debt 1909
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His remarkable paper on Sexual Dimorphism had been translated into several languages, and a furious polemic had broken out over it.
The Debt 1909
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Dimorphism is the condition of the appearance of the same species under two dissimilar forms.
Glossary of the Principal Scientific Terms Used in the Present Volume 1909
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A. Weismann in his classical work on the Seasonal Dimorphism of butterflies (1876).
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His remarkable paper on Sexual Dimorphism had been translated into several languages, and a furious polemic had broken out over it.
Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton 1899
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As I pointed out in my _Sexual Dimorphism_ (1900), the common characteristic of somatic sexual characters is their adaptive relation to some function in the sexual habits of the species in which they occur.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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I have stated this argument and the evidence for it in some detail in my volume on _Sexual Dimorphism_.
Hormones and Heredity J. T. Cunningham 1897
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