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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The large series now available from Nephi and nearby localities do show some intergradation with lenis, in that four characters are more as in lenis and contractus and seven characters are more as in albicaudatus.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Durrant, Stephen D.
This relatively greater breadth indicates intergradation with robustus to the west.
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.
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.
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.
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