coadaptation
- noun
- /ˌkoʊˌædæpˈteɪʃən/
- Specialized
- The coadaptation between the flowers and their pollinators is essential for their survival and reproduction.
Examples
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In a coevolutionary context, positive feedback can lead to greater strength of mutualism and potentially to coadaptation of mutualist partners (Bever 1999).
Academic text (2006) -
Beauty and complexity are self-evidently good, and they can be found now in the coadaptation of the ecological system.
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What Darwin values here is clear: the possibility of infinite change and the aesthetic satisfaction of coadaptation.
Academic text (1999) -
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.
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The coadaptation of different species in the rainforest helps them survive together in their environment.
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Scientists study coadaptation to understand how various organisms evolve traits that benefit each other.
Synonyms
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Two or more things that change together because they affect each other
How Adapted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word coadaptation comes from co- ('together') and adapt ('to change or fit'). Think of co- like in cooperate, so coadaptation means two or more living things or parts change together in a way that helps each other.