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Definition of Coadaptation
1. n. Mutual adaption.
Definition of Coadaptation
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of co-adaptation) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coadaptation
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Coadaptation
1. The operation of selection jointly on two or more loci. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coadaptation
Literary usage of Coadaptation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Primary Factors of Organic Evolution by Edward Drinker Cope (1896)
"... diagram representing coadaptation of crowns of superior and inferior molars
in mastication; lines and lettering as in Fig. 102. it brings the part to be ..."
2. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"There are forms in which the coadaptation is quite imperfect ... Sometimes a
coadaptation occurs between the tips of the elytra and the body, but not at the ..."
3. An Introduction to Social Psychology by Charles Abram Ellwood (1917)
"Such a coadaptation of the activities of the individuals of a group may be called
a social ... The changing of the form of coordination, or of coadaptation, ..."
4. Heredity and Selection in Sociology by Georges Chatterton-Hill (1907)
"We have not as yet sufficient knowledge of the details of coadaptation to enable
us to offer a satisfactory explanation of these phenomena. ..."
5. Sociology in Its Psychological Aspects by Charles Abram Ellwood (1912)
"What is needed is, of course, a study of the psychology of these forms of
association or types of coadaptation among individuals. Professor Simmel himself ..."
6. Evolution and Adaptation by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1908)
"But " the coadaptation of the parts, required to make the giraffe's structure
... A lack of coadaptation of a single muscle " would cause fatal results when ..."
7. Darwinism To-day: A Discussion of Present-day Scientific Criticism of the by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"This denial of the capacity of the selection of fortuitous slight variations to
account for coadaptation and for the continuous perfecting of complex organs ..."
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