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What is a dimorphism?

What is a dimorphism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) The occurrence within a plant of two distinct forms of any part.
  2. (biology) The occurrence in an animal species of two distinct types of individual.
  3. (geology) A property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms.
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Many genera in the subfamily Ambleminae, tribe Lampsilini exhibit sexual dimorphism.
Since anisogamy is what defines the sexes it is thus a prerequisite for sexual dimorphism.
Songbirds like warblers, orioles, tanagers, grosbeaks, and sparrows are far from the only birds that display dimorphism.
The sexual dimorphism among the owoc makes the miniscule differences between human males and females positively subatomic.
It is useful to reiterate that the canids mentioned above also tend toward minimal sexual dimorphism and facultative monogamy.
However, the degree of dimorphism in some clades of mammals, including perissodactyls, does not correlate with the degree of polygyny.

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