Neotenic vs Paedomorphic - What's the difference?
neotenic | paedomorphic | Synonyms |
Exhibiting neoteny.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Douglas Larson
, title=Runaway Devils Lake
, volume=100, issue=1, page=46
, magazine=
Of, relating to, or resulting from the retention of juvenile characteristics by an adult.
*2011 , (Steven Pinker), The Better Angels of Our Nature , Penguin 2012, p. 744:
*:Based on pedomorphic changes in the fossils of Paleolithic humans, Wrangham has suggested that a similar process has been taking place in human evolution during the past thirty to fifty thousand years, and may still be taking place.
Neotenic is a synonym of paedomorphic.
As adjectives the difference between neotenic and paedomorphic
is that neotenic is exhibiting neoteny while paedomorphic is of, relating to, or resulting from the retention of juvenile characteristics by an adult.neotenic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.}}