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“Descendants of people who are enslaved could identify in a variety of racial ways, and then phenotypically even present in different ways than they racially identify,” he said in an interview with The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2025

What a shock to rediscover its feminism, its catholic appreciation of art, its fantastical belief that Cliff and Clair Huxtable could have produced children as phenotypically, facially varied as the five they had.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2017

According to a paper on risk factors for Parkinson’s, “It seems likely that Parkinson’s disease is not a single disease but a number of phenotypically similar illnesses.”

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2016

In this case, the dominant trait will be expressed, and the individual will be phenotypically identical to an individual who possesses two dominant alleles for the trait.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

More important, some Brazilian scientists believe, the Botocudo were phenotypically similar to the Lagoa Santa people.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann