Posted: Mar 17, 2010 5:47 pm
Darwinsbulldog wrote:Neoteny basically. Humans retain juvenile features when they become reproductive. But eventually, the adult features come as we age.
Aldous Huxley used the idea in fiction:
When Dr Obispo finally finds the Fifth Earl of Gonister again in Europe, still alive at 200, the Earl has fully matured from the juvenile ape that man really is. Apparently, Huxley is referring to man as an immature, not fully grown ape.