| 单词 | adaptive radiation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasadaptive radiation adaptive radiation n. Biology the evolutionary diversification of an animal or plant lineage into a number of forms adapted to different habitats or ecological niches; an instance of this; cf. radiation n. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun] > processes or types of evolution transmutation1626 substitution1822 subspeciation1826 metamorphosis1835 phytogenesis1847 phytogeny1850 anamorphosis1852 correlation1859 advergence1861 convergence1861 phylogeny1869 ontogeny1872 recapitulation1874 ontogenesis1875 phylogenesis1875 biogenesis1876 abiogenesis1884 anagenesis1889 tachygenesis1893 orthogenesis1895 adaptive radiation1898 speciation1906 microevolution1911 subspeciation1921 raciation1934 orthogenetics1937 encephalization1938 proterogenesis1938 allomorphosis1941 cladogenesis1953 Wallace effect1966 metachromism1968 punctuation1976 speciational evolution1988 tachygen- 1898 Times 26 Aug. 8/2 [Report on the work of Professor Osborn] The starting point of each adaptive radiation has been a small, unspecialized land mammal. 1902 H. F. Osborn in Amer. Naturalist May 353 One of the essential features of divergent evolution..has been termed by the writer ‘adaptive radiation’. 1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. xi. 240 This adaptation to different modes of life, while..we call it specialization when we are thinking only of one species of animal, is called adaptive radiation when we are thinking of the group as a whole. 1986 R. Bakker Dinosaur Heresies (1988) xx. 416 Several dicynodonts survived to produce a new adaptive radiation in the Scythian. 2006 K. D. Rose Beginning Age Mammals i. 2/2 The adaptive radiation was particularly intense soon after the final extinction of nonavian dinosaurs at the K/T boundary. < as lemmas |
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