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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or produced by
coevolution .
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Examples
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Because, as the argument goes, there's something so fundamentally coevolutionary about dogs and cats in particular that we continue to forge lasting bonds with them in spite of a less-pressing need to keep them close.
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However, once it is accepted that the code's history records more than one effect (for example, it is stereochemical but evolved along pathways also), uncertainty about the specific pathways to be chosen for partial coevolution makes it difficult to estimate a fraction of the code potentially attributable to coevolutionary codon assignment (see Coevolution above).
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He refers again and again to it as some kind of refutation of “Darwinism”, completely clueless as to understanding that humanity is engaged in a pharmaceuticallly-driven coevolutionary arms race with Plasmodium.
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However, once it is accepted that the code's history records more than one effect (for example, it is stereochemical but evolved along pathways also), uncertainty about the specific pathways to be chosen for partial coevolution makes it difficult to estimate a fraction of the code potentially attributable to coevolutionary codon assignment (see Coevolution above).
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Plants and their pollinators are often in coevolutionary mutualisms.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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Many plants use animals to disperse their seeds in another complex coevolutionary process.
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This coevolutionary explanation of the unsustainability of modern societies then is simply that development based on fossil hydrocarbons allowed individuals to control their immediate environments for the short run while shifting environmental impacts, in ways that have proven difficult to comprehend, to broader and broader publics (ultimately to the entire global polity) and on to future generations.
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And the coevolutionary framing highlights how our abilities to perceive and resolve environmental problems within the dominant modes of valuing, thinking, and organizing are severely constrained.
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Development betrayed: The end of progress and a coevolutionary revisioning of the future.
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Man and the biosphere: Toward a coevolutionary political economy.
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