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

What they found was quite consistent with the notion of neoteny, not only for body shape but for dog language.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak Dog] Reference

The most important of these involves neoteny, which is the technical term describing the fact that certain juvenile features and behaviors are retained in the adult.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak Dog] Reference

This condition, called neoteny, means it keeps its tadpole-like dorsal fin, which runs almost the length of its body, and its feathery external gills, which protrude from the back of its wide head.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Attributing homosexuality to any single factor, whether "neoteny" or an absent father gives the impression that there is something abnormal, something that requires treatment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desmond Morris on male homosexuality] Reference

Domestication and neoteny seem to go hand-in-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak Dog] Reference

All domestic dogs do not show the same degree of neoteny.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak Dog] Reference

Their descendants had evolved to intelligence: a classic example of neoteny.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ringworld Throne]

It has nothing to do with docility, although this is how neoteny is expressed in dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zorse – The Zebra Horse Hybrid] Reference

Somebody mentioned the neoteny of dogs as being “traits that make them more docile”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zorse – The Zebra Horse Hybrid] Reference

Has anyone ever connected “neoteny” with the fact that human beings are born too soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Francisco Jose Ayala: Darwin's Gift: To Science and Religion - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The neoteny issue is a pervasive cultural problem, but it applies to men and women alike in all aspects of our culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kicking The Dog] Reference

Has anyone ever connected “neoteny” with the fact that human beings are born too soon and must be taught by their mother/father about their world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Francisco Jose Ayala: Darwin's Gift: To Science and Religion - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The German shepherd has a lot of similarity to timber wolves, and does not show extreme neoteny, so it might well be sensitive to this kind of message.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak Dog] Reference

Their traits may be a result of their "growing up " to nearly adult or ''wolf'' behavior, rather than being stuck at some level of neoteny, as Raymond Coppinger has suggested.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tazi Girls] Reference

Dogs that look a lot like wolves, such as German shepherd dogs and Siberian huskies, not only have more adult physical characteristics but show less neoteny in their behaviors.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak Dog] Reference

They may have some receptive language ability in Wolfish, but their productive vocabulary is limited because neoteny has stalled them before they achieved the full set of adult linguistic capabilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak Dog] Reference

She even raised (and educated me in) the biology concept of neoteny, whereby new species begin to resemble the embryos of the animals from whence they evolved -- chihuahuas, for example, look like fetal wolves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kicking The Dog] Reference

Conversely, dogs that look more like puppies, such as the Cavalier King Charles spaniel or the French bulldog, should not only have more juvenile characteristics physically but also behaviorally because of their greater neoteny.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak Dog] Reference

My reason is that psychological neoteny (delayed maturation) is very probably beneficial for the educational process - education is a mainly absorptive process, and it benefits from youthful flexibility of mind and memory skills.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Single Person With Doubts About the "Gap Year", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The author believes that neoteny and autism are closely related.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference

I hypothesize that social structure and environmental effects are integral to how neoteny influences our evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference

The salamander has the rare trait of retaining its larval features throughout its adult life, a phenomenon called neoteny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference

Extended neoteny and late stage allometric growth increase morphological disparity between growth stages in at least some dinosaurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

She described game developers in terms of neoteny, an idea from developmental biology that describes adults of a species who have juvenile traits.    From Wordnik.com.  [IGN PC] Reference

These lambeosaurine taxa experienced cranial allometric growth and retained juvenile characters (neoteny) until the skulls reached approximately 50% adult size.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Dodson showed that extended neoteny and late stage allometry increased the morphological disparity between particular growth "stages" within the lambeosaurine taxa.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In our species the evolutionary development of neoteny, which involves the retention of juvenile physical characteristics in mature individuals, has also prolonged the play impulse well into adulthood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychology Today] Reference

Even at the end of the book, when Lanier drifts into ruminations on "cultural neoteny," he brings the discussion back to earth - or in this case, to ocean - by linking morphing octopuses to computer graphics and virtual reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference

It's long been known that larger eyes in proportion to the face trigger a reaction in humans that makes us consider the face to be "cuter" - it is speculated that this is a response to neoteny, the retention of childlike characteristics even into adulthood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raph's Website] Reference

It’s not just a matter of the loss of eyes and pigment, it’s lower metabolic rates, neoteny, and delayed reproduction.    From Wordnik.com.  [If You Seal It Off, They Will Evolve - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

(social groups, species), or at different phases of the life cycle (evolution-development), and how other embryological and evolutionary phenomena (heterochrony, neoteny) may influence or impact evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

2 Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America Extended neoteny and late stage allometric growth increase morphological disparity between growth stages in at least some dinosaurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] 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

This is how I connect neoteny with autism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums] Reference

She’s never heard of neoteny, I take it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama is a girly man] Reference