coevolution

coevolution

See also: co-evolution and coévolution

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Proto-Indo-European *ḱe
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
English evolution
English coevolution

    From co- + evolution.

    Noun

    coevolution (usually uncountable, plural coevolutions)

    1. (ecology, evolutionary theory) The evolution of organisms of two or more species in which each adapts to changes in the other.
      • 2005, “Revision of New World Species of Shore Fly Genus Discomyza Meigen (Diptera: Ephydridae)”, in Annals of the Entomological Society of America‎[1], volume 98, number 4, page 431:
        These species breed in a variety of both terrestrial and marine snails, although there is no obvious pattern of coevolution.

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