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- noun Plural form of
morphologist .
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Examples
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Consider Pterolebias hoignei and P. zonatus now in Ganatholebias; these are sister species by two independent DNA studies, and morphologists agree.
(UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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Consider Pterolebias hoignei and P. zonatus now in Ganatholebias; these are sister species by two independent DNA studies, and morphologists agree.
(UPDATED) Another half-brained science headline - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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Indeed most workers - morphologists and molecular biologists - seem ok with the idea that hippos actually aren't in the same clade as pigs and peccaries (Suiformes), but instead form Whippomorpha with whales.
More on what I saw at the zoo Darren Naish 2006
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In the process, most of the boundaries that used to separate morphologists from physiologists and biochemists have been removed: these scientists can now converse and understand each other over the few lingering barriers.
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When one remembers what powerful arguments for evolution can be drawn from such facts as the unity of plan and composition and the law of parallelism, one is astonished to find that it was not the morphologists at all who founded the theory of evolution.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Haeckel and Gegenbaur set the fashion for phylogenetic speculation, and up to the middle 'eighties, when the voice of the sceptics began to make itself heard, the chief concern of the younger morphologists was the construction of genealogical trees.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Theophrastus is a pedestrian where Aristotle is a creature of wings, he is in a relation to the master of the same order that the morphologists of the second half of the nineteenth century were to Darwin.
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Darwin's opponents, in whose ranks were found the majority of the morphologists of the old school.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Why did most morphologists join with him in belittling the organism's power of self-transformation?
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Why, we may ask, were morphologists so unwilling to admit the creative power of life?
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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