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morphology

[mawr-fol-uh-jee] / mɔrˈfɒl ə dʒi /






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"Goethe is regarded as the founder of morphology and would likely have been delighted to see how we were able to gain valuable insights in this field using entirely new methods," says Bernhard Bock.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026

"I think our work provides an important perspective on how much we can learn from studying morphology," Ferraioli explains.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 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

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

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

"In the papers, we characterize what the morphologies are of these shock fractures in these lower-pressure events," Kennett said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 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 Edward Sapir




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