Definitions
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- adj. Exhibiting retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult.
- adj. Babyfaced.
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- adj. of or relating to or characterized by neoteny
Etymologies
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Examples
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Was there a neotenous giant-brained super-race that lived in Africa 10,000 years ago?
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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.
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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.
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Had to chuckle over the "hit by a frying pan" comment - what is the appeal of vacuous, neotenous, and commonly somewhat creepy stuffed toys?
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These pedomorphic or neotenous dogs, who retain more features of juvenile members of canid species into adulthood, look least like adult wolves.
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People experience a reaction to juvenile (or neotenous) characteristics of the young that is largely involuntary.
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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.
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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.
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A single regulatory gene mutation making Australopithecines more neotenous would have an enormous effect, in terms of human evolution.
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Her people lived at the coast, feeding on the soft-fleshed descendants of neotenous crabs.
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