morphology
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"Our study shows that advanced correlative methods can reveal changes in this hidden organization that are not apparent from morphology alone."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
Another highlight of the most recent study was the preservation of muscle morphology.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2025
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
In a wild fly species named Drosophila pseudoobscura, for instance, Dobzhansky found multiple gene variants that influenced complex traits, such as life span, eye structure, bristle morphology, and wing size.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
However, the early evolution of snakes and the changes in their morphologies over time has been long debated in the field of biology.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 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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