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coadaptation
[ koh-ad-uhp-tey-shuhn ]
noun
- Biology. the correlation of structural or behavioral characteristics in two or more interacting organisms in a community or organs in an organism resulting from progressive accommodation by natural selection.
- Also called integration. Genetics. the accumulation in a population's gene pool of genes that interact by harmonious epistasis in the development of an organism.
coadaptation
/ ō′ăd′ăp-′ə /
- The mutual adaptation of two or more genetically determined features through natural selection. Coadaptation can occur between interacting genes or structures within an organism or between two or more interacting species.
Other 51Թ Forms
- a··ٲtDz· adjective
- a··ٲtDz··ly adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of coadaptation1
Example Sentences
In throwing a stone or spear, and in many other actions, a man must stand firmly on his feet; and this again demands the perfect coadaptation of numerous muscles.
He states clearly the important truth that a mere belief in the origin of species by descent from other species is unsatisfactory until it can be shown how species can have been modified so as to acquire their present remarkable perfection of structure and coadaptation.
How is coadaptation best obtained?
The one who has drawn our attention more than perhaps any other living writer to those very marvels of coadaptation, is the foremost to maintain that they are the result not of desire and design, either within the creature or without it, but of blind chance, working no whither, and due but to the accumulation of innumerable lucky accidents.
It is obvious that even the problem of coadaptation in sterile animals can thus be satisfactorily explained.
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