neotenous

IPA: niˈɑtʌnʌs

Examples of "neotenous" in Sentences

Was there a neotenous giant-brained super-race that lived in Africa 10,000 years ago?
People experience a reaction to juvenile (or neotenous) characteristics of the young that is largely involuntary.
Had to chuckle over the "hit by a frying pan" comment - what is the appeal of vacuous, neotenous, and commonly somewhat creepy stuffed toys?
These pedomorphic or neotenous dogs, who retain more features of juvenile members of canid species into adulthood, look least like adult wolves.
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.
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.
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.
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.