Morphological Quotes

To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life. - Peter R. Grant

The multiple-origins theory was based in part on the broad distribution of potatoes from north to south across many different habitats, through morphological resemblance of different wild species to cultivated species, and through other data. Our DNA data, however, shows that in fact all cultivated potatoes can be traced back to a single origin in southern Peru. - David Spooner

Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs. - Peter R. Grant

Our work shows that even major morphological changes are controlled by relatively simple mechanisms. - David Kingsley

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time. - Ferdinand De Saussure

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits. - J. Philippe Rushton