morphology
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"I'm including historical east coast wolves in a separate chapter of my dissertation comparing skull morphology between coastal and inland populations," he says.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2026
Using personalized “Explorer Key” cards, visitors can activate digital paleontological tools to probe the morphology and physiology of dinosaurs and other creatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 2, 2025
“Axon morphology in living animals is under constant and dynamic change,” says neuroscientist Tong Wang from ShanghaiTech University, who has studied beading in diseased neurons.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024
Genes controlling morphology often respond to several independent enhancers, each determining the expression of the gene in a different body part.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
Barley has the further advantage that its genetics and morphology permit it to evolve quickly the useful changes in seed dispersal and germination inhibition that we discussed in the preceding chapter.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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In a paper published January 2025, Reichgelt and collaborator Christopher West compared the shapes of fossil leaves of the Miocene gathered and analyzed in many previous studies with a dataset of modern leaf morphologies.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025
Cranial and dental morphologies also confirmed the identity of this skull as the modern species Hippopotamus amphibius.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2023
We can select and generate target morphologies by design.
From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023
Once you start introducing these little chemical factories — that's what a bacterium is, a tiny, little chemical factory — there's only three morphologies.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022
From this it follows that broadly similar morphologies must have been reached by unrelated languages, independently and frequently.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward
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