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  • verb To evolve, along with another organism, via coevolution

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Examples

  • Mr. Prum, who received a MacArthur fellowship for his work on bird feathers, sees parallels in the modern human art world to support his notion that an art and its audience "coevolve" in nature.

    How Artistry Evolved Jennie Erin Smith 2011

  • (We presume they would coevolve in nature, but this is not a necessary assumption in order to understand the abstract case.) eric: I am not misrepresenting Orr's view.

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • According to Wilber 2002: 12 the higher levels are rather potentials than a pregiven mold, a developmental space, “still plastic, still open to being formed as more and more people coevolve into them.”

    Kenneth Sørensen - Integral Psychosynthesis, a comparison of Wilber and Assagioli William Harryman 2009

  • (We presume they would coevolve in nature, but this is not a necessary assumption in order to understand the abstract case.)

    Bits and Pieces of an RNA World 2007

  • It might be similar to the idea that we coevolve with our language, that language is a mind tool that grows with us.

    I now see colour differently Bill Kerr 2008

  • The operational code represented at first by anticodon/codon-like pairs in the acceptor stem of tRNAs began to coevolve with these synthetases and sorta ceased to "coincide" with the anticodons.

    Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It? 2006

  • The operational code represented at first by anticodon/codon-like pairs in the acceptor stem of tRNAs began to coevolve with these synthetases and sorta ceased to "coincide" with the anticodons.

    Analogy, How Scientifically Powerful is It? 2006

  • It might be similar to the idea that we coevolve with our language, that language is a mind tool that grows with us.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Bill Kerr 2008

  • Hence, the characteristics of any one species are selected in the context of the characteristics of other species and vice versa; species coevolve.

    An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 2 2007

  • With each subsystem putting selective pressure on each of the others, they coevolve in a manner whereby each reflects the other.

    An Introduction to Ecological Economics~ Chapter 2 2007

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