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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Arising or occurring within a species.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to characters or processes which have to do with the internal organization of species. Thus evolution is an intraspecific phenomenon and heterism is intraspecific diversification.

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  • adjective Occurring among members of the same species.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective arising or occurring within a species; involving the members of one species

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Examples

  • The process can best be designated by the name of intraspecific selection, if it is understood that the term intraspecific is meant to apply to the conception of small or elementary species.

    Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891

  • "As the climate continues to warm in the Arctic and the sea ice melts earlier in the summer, the frequency of such intraspecific predation may increase."

    Polar Bear Eats Cub: Cannibalism May Be On The Rise (GRAPHIC PHOTOS) 2011

  • The photographer wrote in the journal Arctic, "As the climate continues to warm in the Arctic and the sea ice melts earlier in the summer, the frequency of such intraspecific predation may increase."

    Siku, Polar Bear Cub, Raised At Scandinavian Wildlife Park (PHOTOS) 2011

  • A related area of interest is intraspecific and interspecific variation and energetics of postnatal growth in bats.

    Contributor: Thomas Kunz 2010

  • The other thing I like about the conclusion of “intraspecific macroevolution” is that it tweaks a lot of standard tropes that even we scientists have about what is meant by the word “macroevolution.”

    "Intraspecific macroevolution" within domestic dog breeds - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Other animals have tusks mainly for display like in some herbvores, but this can be also coupled with functional purposes, as seen in elephants or also for intraspecific fights (like in fang-toothed deers) or partly as defense against predators (like in pigs which don´t use their tusk only to bite each other but also predators).

    BoarCroc James Gurney 2010

  • I hope that some young investigaor out there in cyberspace will take this opportunity to destroy the Darwinian myth once and for all by exposing Darwin's most cherished example as nothing but intraspecific variation.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • By the way Richard Dawkins, if you read this thread and I bet you do, I challenge you to appear here and respond to my thesis that Darwinism never had anything whatsoever to do with organic evolution beyond the generation of intraspecific varieties and subspecies, none of which were, are now, or ever will be incipient species.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • But these are intraspecific pair bonds: between members of the same species.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • When resources are limited individuals will be expected to complete not only with members of their own species (intraspecific competition) but also with members of other species (interspecific competition).

    Ecology Reader- Ecology for Teachers 2009

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