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nounheterophyly (uncountable)
- uncountablebiologyThe tendency of different types of individuals to form relationships.
Heterophyly (where a plant has quite different leaves in the juvenile stage compared to the mature state) is just one of many traits manifesting apparently widespread parallel evolution in the plant kingdom […]
2000, James Patrick Brock, The Evolution of Adaptive Systems: The General Theory of Evolution, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 438
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