intergradation
Americannoun
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the act or process of intergrading or the state of being intergraded.
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an evolutionary process by which different species of organisms tend to merge through a series of intermediate stages or grades.
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Remarks.—Specimens from Colton, show intergradation between moorei, uinta and wasatchensis, but are referable to moorei in the majority of characters.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.
With one exception, once the shrew populations become 'insular' in this region they become smaller and show intergradation with Sorex vagrans monticola.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.
Two specimens from Escalante, Garfield County, are referred to absonus, but they show intergradation with dissimilis.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.
West of the Cascades no evidence of intergradation has been found and the two kinds occur almost side by side and maintain their distinctness.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.
Slight intergradation with centralis is indicated by color and the shape of the nasals.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.
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