Neoteny (/niˈɒtəni/), also called juvenilization, is the delaying or slowing of the physiological, or somatic, development of an organism, typically an...

Neoteny is the retention of juvenile traits well into adulthood. In humans, this trend is greatly amplified, especially when compared to non-human primates...

adulthood, although the axolotl maintains this feature. This is due to their neoteny evolution, where axolotls are much more aquatic than other salamander species...

smaller stature with each generation. Small stature is a characteristic of neoteny, which may account (in part) for the attraction of dwarf animals. The Netherland...

pubescent and do not develop further into the adult form. This is a type of neoteny. It is a misunderstanding that the larval form always reflects the group's...

accelerated relative to normal or in neoteny; while somatic cell growth is normal in progenesis, but retarded in neoteny. Neoteny retards the development of the...

in an individual A form of heterochrony, able to cause effects such as neoteny, retention by adults of traits previously seen only in the young Retardation...

obligate bipedalism, increased brain size and decreased sexual dimorphism (neoteny). The relationship between all these changes is the subject of ongoing...

that never fully develop into the adult form, a condition known as neoteny. Neoteny occurs when the animal's growth rate is very low and is usually linked...

Facts – National Geographic. Web. 18 April 2010. "Axolotls as models in neoteny and secondary differentiation | Developmental Biology Interactive". www...

psychiatric conditions originating in childhood that involve serious impairment Neoteny, the retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult This disambiguation...

of its effect on insect metamorphosis and neoteny in amphibians. He ends by considering theories of neoteny in human evolution, including Louis Bolk's...

facilities and learns that the shelter was created to enact the "Second Neoteny Plan", a project to deliberately create Artificial Neo-Mitochondrial Creatures...

extreme form of developmental delay, with the defining characteristic being neoteny of the patient. It was named in 2017 by Dr. Richard F. Walker, who discovered...

a terrestrial adult. Not all species of salamanders follow this path. Neoteny, also known as paedomorphosis, has been observed in all salamander families...

Ahmed (November 2014). "Neoteny, female hominin and cognitive evolution". Rock Art Research. 31 (1): 232–238. "In humans, neoteny is manifested in the resemblance...

Negroid (less commonly called Congoid) is an obsolete racial grouping of various people indigenous to Africa south of the area which stretched from the...

using facial features... Shea BT (November 1983). "Paedomorphosis and neoteny in the pygmy chimpanzee". Science. 222 (4623): 521–2. Bibcode:1983Sci....

manga series—86: Operation High School by Suzume Somemiya, 86: Fragmental Neoteny, and 86: Mahō Shōjo Regina Lena ~Tatakae! Ginga Kōkō Senkan San Magnolia...

eyes also exhibit juvenile characteristics. Although ponies exhibit some neoteny with the wide foreheads and small stature, their body proportions are similar...

higher chance of successful reproduction. This male mate preference for neoteny has been shown in research in which men were asked to morph images of female...

University, said that the lengthened youth period of humans is part of neoteny. Physical anthropologist Barry Bogin said that the pattern of children's...

live their lives in a kind of extended kittenhood, a form of behavioral neoteny. Their high-pitched sounds may mimic the cries of a hungry human infant...

offspring, who are unable to walk much before 12 months and have greater neoteny, compared to other primates, who are mobile at a much earlier age. The...

can vary as a result of shortening of the fetal development of a trait (neoteny) or by prolongation of the same. In such a case, a shift in the time a...

occurs faster than other physiological development (in contrast, the term neoteny refers to when non-sexual development is slowed – but the result is the...

Šimić G, Rašin MR, Uylings HB, Rakic P, et al. (2011). "Extraordinary neoteny of synaptic spines in the human prefrontal cortex". Proceedings of the...

backward evolution seen in Dvinosaurus, however, is now thought instead to be neoteny, or the retention of juvenile characteristics in adult forms of an organism...

Reduction in skull size with neoteny - grey wolf and chihuahua skulls...

Stephen Jay Gould wrote about him and further developed this theory of neoteny in humans. Also Jacques Lacan took Bolk's fetalization theory into account...