coadaptation

coadaptation
coadaptational, adj.coadaptationally, adv.
/koh'ad euhp tay"sheuhn/, n.
1. Biol. the correlation of structural or behavioral characteristics in two or more interacting organisms in a community or organs in an organism resulting from progressive accommodation by natural selection.
2. Also called integration. Genetics. the accumulation in a population's gene pool of genes that interact by harmonious epistasis in the development of an organism.
[1830-40; CO- + ADAPTATION]

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