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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In Montana extensive intergradation occurs in a broad zone of transitional habitat.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.
This montane form intergrades with a smaller more reddish Great Basin shrew, the zone of intergradation roughly following the western slope of the Rocky Mountains.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.
They are still isolated and enough time has elapsed so that only vestiges of morphological intergradation exist between centralis and these eastern forms.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.
No specimens from Utah indicate intergradation between gracilis and wasatchensis, the form to the east, but specimens from farther north at Albion, Cassia County, Idaho, do show intergradation.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.
More reddish and larger than permiliensis with which bairdi intergrades to the east; specimens from Portland show evidence of such intergradation.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.
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