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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The totality of possible body shapes that a species or other taxon can assume as it evolves, or that an organism can take as it develops, as defined by genetic, ecological, or other factors.
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The result of stable body plans and organ forms has come with a trade-off: the ability of the DPMs to freely explore what we call morphospace is severely constrained.
ScreenTalk 2009
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The result of stable body plans and organ forms has come with a trade-off: the ability of the DPMs to freely explore what we call morphospace is severely constrained.
ScreenTalk 2009
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The result of stable body plans and organ forms has come with a trade-off: the ability of the DPMs to freely explore what we call morphospace is severely constrained.
ScreenTalk 2009
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The result of stable body plans and organ forms has come with a trade-off: the ability of the DPMs to freely explore what we call morphospace is severely constrained.
ScreenTalk 2009
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The result of stable body plans and organ forms has come with a trade-off: the ability of the DPMs to freely explore what we call morphospace is severely constrained.
ScreenTalk 2009
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The result of stable body plans and organ forms has come with a trade-off: the ability of the DPMs to freely explore what we call morphospace is severely constrained.
ScreenTalk 2009
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By plotting the lengths of femora, tibiae and metatarsi onto ternary diagrams, Daniel Elvidge and David Unwin found that pterosaurs occupied a tight, compact group of data points within morphospace, and a ‘data cloud’ similar in size to that occupied by bats.
Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006
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This concept implies that the multicellular organisms of the late Precambrian - early Cambrian were phenotypically highly plastic, fluently exploring morphospace in a fashion decoupled from both genotypic change and adaptation.
ScreenTalk 2009
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This concept implies that the multicellular organisms of the late Precambrian - early Cambrian were phenotypically highly plastic, fluently exploring morphospace in a fashion decoupled from both genotypic change and adaptation.
ScreenTalk 2009
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This concept implies that the multicellular organisms of the late Precambrian - early Cambrian were phenotypically highly plastic, fluently exploring morphospace in a fashion decoupled from both genotypic change and adaptation.
ScreenTalk 2009
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