Also participating in the funding round was London Venture Partners (LVP).Other investors in the round include MTG, Century Game, Joi Ito's fund,
Neoteny 4; and prominent angel investors in games.
These pieces of evidence are suggestive of a form of
neoteny in the female brain, (assuming male brains as the baseline, which is something scientists do), but no one had looked at metabolism -- how the brain runs on glucose -- until now.
Further, the persistence of juvenile traits into adulthood has been found to not only readily elicit helping behavior from others towards those adults who display juvenile traits, known in ethological circles as
neoteny (Keating et al.
In my paper on the occurrence of protracted juvenilism (paedomorphosis;
neoteny of some authors), I described the patterns seen in rosette trees, rosette shrubs, succulents, and various annuals and perennials (Carlquist, 1962).
(16.) See e.g., Zdravko Petanjek, Judas Milos, et al., Extraordinary
Neoteny of Synaptic Spines in the Human Prefrontal Cortex, 108 PNAS 13281 (2011).
But the differences in
neoteny are critical, as they also determine significant developmental differences between our species and chimpanzees, including the development of the neocortex (see Miller, et al., 2012), which is associated with categorical and goal oriented reasoning and attention.
A commonly used salamander species, Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum), has lifelong lasting
neoteny and does not undergo metamorphosis naturally.
Especially relevant to his view of Bildung, the latter two processes result in the retention of juvenile features in adulthood--a phenomenon known as
neoteny (or paedomorphosis), which, despite its suggestion of regression, was believed to enable an evolutionary "escap[e] from the blind alleys of specialization, into a new period of plasticity and adaptive radiation" (J.
Not dissimilar to tropes of advertising, choreography of faces emphasizes
neoteny and cuteness, giving a grip to encounters to elicit desired emotional responses.
Precocious reproductive development (
neoteny) by larvae of a primitive termite Zootermopsis angusticollis (Hagen).
While phobia of spiders may be genetically predisposed, people are also predisposed to prefer animals exhibiting
neoteny (Estren, 2012).