| 单词 | daughter species |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdaughter species daughter species n. Biology a species that has evolved from an earlier species; esp. each of two or more such new species which have branched off successively from an ancestral line. ΚΠ 1903 L. W. Rothschild & K. Jordan Revision of Lepidopterous Family Sphingidae p. xliv The classifier cannot make any nomenclatorial difference whatever between phylogenetically younger and older genera, between the parent- and daughter-species, between the generalised and specialised subspecies. 1952 New Phytologist 51 86 The time would not be available for the original species to cover the area before it gave rise to more successful daughter species. 2002 S. J. Gould Struct. Evolutionary Theory viii. 606 Under punctuated equilibrium..nearly all species disappear by extinction (‘living on’ only through their progeny of daughter species with new names and individualities). < as lemmas |
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