The influence of closely associated species on each other in their evolution.
〔生〕共同进化
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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
co-evolutionary
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.
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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.
co-evolve
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
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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.