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maladaption

maladaption is the misspelling of maladaptation.

Meaning of maladaptation

Noun

maladaptation (countable and uncountable, plural maladaptations)

  1. (evolutionary theory or psychology) The state of being poorly adapted to an environment.
    • It suggests that species interactions are likely to be in continual flux as they evolve in different ways in different populations, that local maladaptation may be an occasional and important outcome of continuing coevolution between species, and that few coevolved traits will spread across the...1999 June 25, John N. Thompson, “The Evolution of Species Interactions”, in Science, volume 284, number 5423, →DOI, pages 2116–2118
    Antonyms:
    adaptation

Questions about maladaption

What is maladaption the misspelling of?
Maladaption is the misspelling of maladaptation.

Words near maladaption in the dictionary

  1. maladaptation
  2. maladaptations
  3. maladaptative
  4. maladapted
  5. maladapting
  6. maladaption
  7. maladaptive
  8. maladaptively
  9. maladaptiveness
  10. maladaptivity
  11. maladapts

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