Neoteny vs Paedomorphic - What's the difference?
neoteny | paedomorphic |
(biology) The retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult.
(biology) The sexual maturity of an organism still in its larval stage.
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.
As a noun neoteny
is (biology) the retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult.As an adjective paedomorphic is
of, relating to, or resulting from the retention of juvenile characteristics by an adult.neoteny
English
(wikipedia neoteny)Noun
(-)- Most amphibians are aquatic only while young, but some amphibians with neoteny remain aquatic even as adults.