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Definition of Adaptive radiation
1. Noun. The development of many different forms from an originally homogeneous group of organisms as they fill different ecological niches.
Definition of Adaptive radiation
1. Noun. (biology) the diversification of species into separate forms that each adapt to occupy a specific environmental niche ¹
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Literary usage of Adaptive radiation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Evolution by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"Osborn's law is as follows: Osborn's Law of adaptive radiation. ... While the
term adaptive radiation fairly describes the process as it occurs when the ..."
2. The Origin and Evolution of Life: On the Theory of Action, Reaction and by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1918)
"Turning our survey to the origin and adaptive radiation of the reptiles as a ...
adaptive radiation OF THE REPTILIA. The reptiles first appear in Upper ..."
3. Dwarf Mistletoes: Biology, Pathology, and Systematics by Frank G. Hawksworth, Delbert Wiens (1998)
"Another factor in this adaptive radiation was the apparent lack of competition
with other plants for these open niches (conifer hosts). ..."
4. Foundations of Biology by Lorande Loss Woodruff (1922)
"adaptive radiation OF MAMMALS. In the group of Eutherian Mammals, forms are to
be found which are extraordinarily modified in adaptation to the most diverse ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"There was considered first, general adaptive radiation including the radiation
of marsupials and the six independent radiations of the Placentalia, ..."
6. The Origin and Evolution of the Human Dentition by William King Gregory (1922)
"adaptive radiation OF THE DENTITION IN THE HIGHER LEMURS OF MADAGASCAR. "HABITUS"
AND "HERITAGE" There can be no reasonable doubt that the ..."
7. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1905)
"adaptive radiation, continental—In connection with the comparison of mammals ...
Elsewhere the conception of adaptive radiation has been fully developed in ..."
8. The Scientific Monthly by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"BRANCHING Oil DIVERGENCE OF FORM, THE LAW OF adaptive radiation In general the
law of divergence of form, perceived by Lamarck and rediscovered by Darwin, ..."
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