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 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.
If specimens were available they would undoubtedly show intergradation to exist between osgoodi and absonus.
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.
In Utah, as previously pointed out, complete intergradation occurs.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.
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