derivednesses

English

Noun

derivednesses

  1. plural of derivedness
    • 1997: Charles E Oxnard, Human Adaptability: Future Trends and Lessons from the Past — The Interface of Function, Genes, Development and Evolution: Insights from Primate Morphometrics, Abstract, page 85 (World Scientific; →ISBN, 978-9810233563)
      Whole organism anatomical data are usually examined with specific hypotheses in mind; specifically that they are testing ideas about functional adaptations, convergences and parallels, or about primitivenesses, derivednesses and phylogeny.
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