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From: lecl@quads.uchicago.edu (elizabeth e. leclair)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Neotenous vertebrates
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Date: 17 Apr 91 23:25:59 GMT
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In article <4941@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> XRHAH@SCFVM.GSFC.NASA.GOV (Herbert A. Huston) writes:
>Are there any other neotenous vertebrates besides axolotls, domestic dogs,
>and humans?
>

   1)  Are there *any* neotenous vertebrates?  How is this demonstrated?
   2)  Is neoteny a process, the resulting effect, or both?
   3)  Devil's Advocate Question:  Is there anythign which is *not*
       neotenous in SOME way relative to an ancestor (i.e. retains the
       juvenile characteristic int eh sexually mature adult.)	

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