pedomorphy
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pedo- (“child”) + -morphy.
Noun
[edit]pedomorphy (uncountable)
- (US) Alternative spelling of paedomorphy
- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 744:
- Richard Wrangham has noted that the domestication of animals usually tames them by slowing down components of the developmental timetable to retain juvenile traits into adulthood, a process called pedomorphy or neoteny.