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coadaptation

coadaptation is the alternative spelling of co-adaptation.

Meaning of co-adaptation

Noun

co-adaptation (countable and uncountable, plural co-adaptations)

  1. A mutual adaptation of species, organs or genes.
    • 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...1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Natural Selection”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 109

Forms of coadaptation

pluralcoadaptations

Questions about coadaptation

What is coadaptation the alternative spelling of?
Coadaptation is the alternative spelling of co-adaptation.

Words near coadaptation in the dictionary

  1. coactosin
  2. coacts
  3. coactualization
  4. Coad
  5. coadapt
  6. coadaptation
  7. coadaptational
  8. coadaptations
  9. coadapted
  10. coadapting
  11. coadaptive

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