Crossword-Solution: HETEROCHRONY 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 23

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Heterochrony n. In evolution, a deviation from the typical sequence
in the formation of organs or parts.

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A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
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Heterochrony shows itself, as a rule, either as an acceleration or as a retardation of developmental events, as compared with their relative time of occurrence during phylogeny.
Form and Function E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell 2007
Heterochrony: an irregular development in point of time, a later stage becoming evident before one that is earlier in ordinary course.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith 2007
HETEROCHRONY, het-e-rok'ro-ni, _n._ (_biol._) a divergence in ontogenetic sequence affecting the time of formation of parts or organs--also HETEROCHR[=O]'NIA.--_adj._ HETEROCHRON'IC.--_n._ HETEROCH'RONISM.--_adjs._ HETEROCHRONIST'IC; HETEROCH'RONOUS.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) Various 2012