neotenous

But somewhere in the establishment of our cultural system, we have learned to depress our neotenous characteristics as we age for behaviors that we identify as mature.

Dylan Kendall: Retreating Back to Our Inner Child 2010

There is a biological reason we don't lose our neotenous playful characteristics as we age but we need to embrace these traits instead of shunning them.

Dylan Kendall: Retreating Back to Our Inner Child 2010

Was there a neotenous giant-brained super-race that lived in Africa 10,000 years ago?

News Hour Walter Jon Williams 2010

Had to chuckle over the "hit by a frying pan" comment - what is the appeal of vacuous, neotenous, and commonly somewhat creepy stuffed toys?

New addition to family, cats and a care day away. Elizabeth McClung 2009

These pedomorphic or neotenous dogs, who retain more features of juvenile members of canid species into adulthood, look least like adult wolves.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

These pedomorphic or neotenous dogs, who retain more features of juvenile members of canid species into adulthood, look least like adult wolves.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

People experience a reaction to juvenile (or neotenous) characteristics of the young that is largely involuntary.

Methodological Individualism Heath, Joseph 2009

Mostly these differences have been explained as the result of either reduced selection under domestication (Björnerfeldt et al. 2006), or artificial selection for neotenous characters.

Controversial origins of the domestic dog Darren Naish 2006

Mostly these differences have been explained as the result of either reduced selection under domestication (Björnerfeldt et al. 2006), or artificial selection for neotenous characters.

Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

And we are, by physical anthropologists, by many, many studies, the most neotenous, the most youthful, the most flexible, the most plastic of all creatures.

Stuart Brown says play is more than fun Stuart Brown 2008