co-adaptation
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See also: coadaptation
English
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Etymology
From co- + adaptation.
Noun
co-adaptation (countable and uncountable, plural co-adaptations)
- A mutual adaptation of species, organs or genes.
- 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Natural Selection”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, , London: John Murray, , →OCLC, page 109:
- Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection.