co-evolution
noun [mass noun] Biology
The influence of closely associated species on each other in their evolution.This would add greatly to our knowledge of natural selection and co-evolution in plant-pathogen populations....
- Several types of co-evolution have been described in the literature about evolution, including mutualism, character displacement and host-pathogen evolution.
- Recent work shows that these theorems don't hold in the case of co-evolution, when two or more species evolve in response to one another.
Derivatives
co-evolutionary
- The remainder of the chapter evaluates jealousy as a co-evolutionary arms race of reproductive strategies between men and women.
- In this book I take the view that these changes are neither revolutionary nor evolutionary but somewhere between: that they are co-evolutionary.
- It seems more reasonable to see the co-evolutionary interaction between war and religion as enforcing rather than inhibiting each other.
co-evolve
- I'd like to think that the tenets of deep ecology are part of human consciousness by dint of the fact that we evolved, co-evolved with entire biotic communities.
- In addition, we have co-evolved with other organisms and within a particular range of physical conditions.
- ‘These animals have co-evolved with parasites and pathogens, as well as local food plants,’ she said.
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