Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mutual or reciprocal adaptation: as, the coadaptation of the parts of the hip-joint.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Mutual adaption.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
co-adaptation .
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Examples
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Just a few hundred generations of selection are sufficient to allow robots to evolve collision-free movement, homing, sophisticated predator versus prey strategies, coadaptation of brains and bodies, cooperation, and even altruism.
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Just a few hundred generations of selection are sufficient to allow robots to evolve collision-free movement, homing, sophisticated predator versus prey strategies, coadaptation of brains and bodies, cooperation, and even altruism.
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Just a few hundred generations of selection are sufficient to allow robots to evolve collision-free movement, homing, sophisticated predator versus prey strategies, coadaptation of brains and bodies, cooperation, and even altruism.
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Here, a more gentle force -- that of coadaptation -- is important.
Jillian Burt: Australian Animals in Contemporary Art Jillian Burt 2010
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But he was well aware that such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory until it could be shown how the innumerable species inhabiting the world have been modified, so as to acquire that perfection of structure and coadaptation which justly excites our admiration.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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It is, therefore, of the highest importance to gain a clear insight into the means of modification and coadaptation.
Introduction 1909
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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 coadaptation which justly excites our admiration.
Introduction 1909
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The problem of coadaptation is no easier in the case of the ant than in the case of the Giant Stag.
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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_Harmonious adaptation_ (coadaptation) has here been active in a high degree, and yet these "soldiers" are sterile!
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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The fact of coadaptation, which was supposed to furnish the strongest argument against the principle of selection, in reality yields the clearest evidence in favour of it.
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
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