Noun : Neoteny in the ostrich has resulted in adult birds sporting the down feathers of nestlings.    From Dictionary.com. 

Was there a neotenous giant-brained super-race that lived in Africa 10,000 years ago?.    From Wordnik.com.  [News Hour] Reference

Her people lived at the coast, feeding on the soft-fleshed descendants of neotenous crabs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

People experience a reaction to juvenile (or neotenous) characteristics of the young that is largely involuntary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Methodological Individualism] Reference

A single regulatory gene mutation making Australopithecines more neotenous would have an enormous effect, in terms of human evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haldane's non-dilemma - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Had to chuckle over the "hit by a frying pan" comment - what is the appeal of vacuous, neotenous, and commonly somewhat creepy stuffed toys?.    From Wordnik.com.  [New addition to family, cats and a care day away.] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dylan Kendall: Retreating Back to Our Inner Child] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dylan Kendall: Retreating Back to Our Inner Child] Reference

These men likely chose the hottest babes to pass on their genes, ushering forth the big-eyed neotenous era we have today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roissy in DC] Reference

And the entire human species is said to be neotenous -- meaning that we have "regressed" to an infantile state in various ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Western Heart] Reference

For others such as average age at puberty, muscle mass at maturity and so on East Asians are on average more neotenous than Europeans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference

Olms seem to reproduce whilst still in the larval stage, and unlike frogs and toads, adults are neotenous - they retain juvenile features such as gills.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

Not only do we prefer animals that are physically neotenous, but we also might say that many dogs are selected based on their ability to parenting mechanisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychology Today] Reference

In other words, there seems to be an influential preference among humans for adult dogs that possess neotenous features, much like those we prefer in human infants, including large communicative eyes (especially with visible white sclera showing, see photo below), and small noses and mouths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychology Today] Reference

Huxley’s joke was that, as humans are neotenous apes, long-lived humans eventually mature into the ape of which we are the juvenile form.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times on Bristlecones « Climate Audit] Reference

While these characters might result from reduced selection under domestication, or artificial selection for neotenous characters, it’s interesting that many of them recall the conditions seen in non-wolf canids, such as jackals and dholes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

McCain can look like a lump of oatmeal-cookie dough and no one is particularly moved to comment except in passing, even though he's far from the George Eads type he was way back when; no one seems to pay attention to the fact that Obama has the physique of a runner and a slightly neotenous face, but Palin happens to have cheekbones she didn't earn and people go all gobsmacked and ignore her incompetence, croneyism, ignorance, and extremism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference

May 24, 2008 at 9:24 pm neoteny cat is neotenous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christina Ricci Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference