| 释义 |
fœtalization, fetalization|ˌfiːtəlaɪˈzeɪʃən|
[ad. G. fetalisation (L. Bolk Das Problem der Menschwerdung (1926) 25).]
(See quot. 1957.) So ˈfœtalized, fetalized a.
1930G. R. de Beer Embryol. & Evol. viii. 59 The principle here described..is that to which Bolk has applied the term foetalization. 1937Nature 2 Jan. 37/1 The Bushman..shows features, in which it [sc. the skull] resembles the juvenile skull. It is here suggested that this ‘fœtalization’..is not due to an adult retention of juvenile features, but is a precocious assumption of the adult. 1940Auden in I Believe 19 The distinguishing mark of man as an animal is his plastic, unspecialized ‘foetalized’ nature. 1957L. Eiseley Immense Journey 130 ‘Foetalization’ or ‘pedomorphism’, as it is termed, means simply the retention, into adult life, of bodily characters which at some earlier stage of evolutionary history were actually only infantile. Ibid. 133 It [sc. man] is not..the most foetalized race nor the largest brained. |