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mammalian

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1. mammalian - Noun

2. mammalian - Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction. Arthur C. Clarke

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. William Gibson

An old paleontological in joke proclaims that mammalian evolution is a tale told by teeth mating to produce slightly altered descendant teeth. Stephen Jay Gould

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America. Louis Leakey

[I]n all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city. Daniel Dennett

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace. John Desmond Bernal

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