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  • noun Plural form of placental.

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Examples

  • Marsupials and placentals have a shared history, and that includes the panoply of developmental genes.

    Biomolecular Networks 2009

  • So marsupials and placentals will often converge because they start with much of the same biological structures, including developmental systems.

    Biomolecular Networks 2009

  • You can probably recognize the groupings; vertebrates, tetrapods, mammals, placentals.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • As I showed previously, the mainstream explanation, and we'll take marsupials and placentals as an example, is that they occupy similar niches:

    Biomolecular Networks 2009

  • So marsupials and placentals will often converge because they start with much of the same biological structures, including developmental systems.

    Biomolecular Networks 2009

  • I do also see marsupials as slightly altered placentals.

    Casey Luskin embarrasses himself again - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Of coarse water mammals from land creatures and marsupials from placentals.

    Happy Lamarck Day - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Is it purely that humans are born more underdeveloped than other mammals, thus necessitating a mother/child bond stronger than other placentals?

    Early indications of bipedalism in A. afarensis - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • And God made pottery shards and Silurian mollusks and pre-Cambrian limestone strata; and flints and Jurassic Mastodon tusks and Picanthopus erectus skulls and Cretaceous placentals made he; and those cave paintings at Lasceaux.

    Tony Hendra: Not The Bible -- The Ultimate and Eternal Parody 2009

  • Why would all those marsupials – ranging from tiny pouched mice through koalas and bilbys to giant kangaroos and Diprotodonts – why would all those marsupials, but no placentals at all, have migrated en masse from Mount Ararat to Australia?

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

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