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Definition of co-evolution in English: co-evolutionnoun mass nounBiology The influence of closely associated species on each other in their evolution. Example sentencesExamples - The co-evolution of plant surfaces and insect pads results from a competition between insect attachment systems and plant anti-attachment surfaces.
- 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.
- Because of this long period of co-evolution, dogs are the most attuned of animals to our own species needs and ways of living.
- Several types of co-evolution have been described in the literature about evolution, including mutualism, character displacement and host-pathogen evolution.
- This would add greatly to our knowledge of natural selection and co-evolution in plant-pathogen populations.
Derivatives adjective Biology If this wild theory were to contain some truth, we could then ask ourselves whether this meme has started to affect our genes in a co-evolutionary process. Example sentencesExamples - In this book I take the view that these changes are neither revolutionary nor evolutionary but somewhere between: that they are co-evolutionary.
- He wanted to shape the computer and its user into a co-evolutionary unit, where the user would command the computer as a sort of slave, a kind of extension of her own body and mind.
- It seems more reasonable to see the co-evolutionary interaction between war and religion as enforcing rather than inhibiting each other.
- The remainder of the chapter evaluates jealousy as a co-evolutionary arms race of reproductive strategies between men and women.
verbˌkəʊɪˈvɒlv [no object](of two things) influence each other in the process of development or evolution. sperm and egg proteins must co-evolve to maintain compatibility at fertilization Example sentencesExamples - a system of networks that interact and co-evolve
- 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.
- 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.
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