co-adaptation

Darwin came to the conclusion that “each species had not been independently created, but had descended, like varieties, from other species … The innumerable species inhabiting this world have been modified so as to acquire that perfection of structure and co-adaptation which most justly excites our admiration.”

The Eco-Man's Library: Nonfiction Spangler, Adam 2008

Nevertheless, such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory, until it could be shown how the innumerable species inhabiting this world have been modified so as to acquire that perfection of structure and co-adaptation which most justly excites our admiration.

Essentialisms in Biology (II) 2006

Nevertheless, such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory, until it could be shown how the innumerable species inhabiting this world have been modified so as to acquire that perfection of structure and co-adaptation which most justly excites our admiration.

Archive 2005-03-01 2005

LGT and endosymbiosis on one end, and ecological co-adaptation on the other.

Lynn Margulis: "Definitely a Darwinist" - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Nevertheless, such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory, until it could be shown how the innumerable species inhabiting this world have been modified so as to acquire that perfection of structure and co-adaptation which most justly excites our admiration.

Darwin's Logic: Preliminaries: The Opposition 2005

I thought Romanes 'article in reply to Spencer was very well written and wonderfully clear for him, and I agree with most of it, except his high estimate of Spencer's co-adaptation argument.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

Nature, so far as we know of it, is now moving -- namely, towards the evolution of mind, body, and character in increasing energy and co-adaptation.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

Nevertheless, such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory, until it could be shown how the innumerable species inhabiting this world have been modified so as to acquire that perfection of structure and co-adaptation which justly excites our admiration.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

It is, therefore, of the highest importance to gain a clear insight into the means of modification and co-adaptation.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

The difficulty as to co-adaptation of parts by variation and natural selection appears to me, therefore, to be a wholly imaginary difficulty which has no place whatever in the operations of nature.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868