Maladaptation
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state of being poorly adapted to an environment. countable, uncountable
"It suggests that species interactions are likely to be in continual flux as they evolve in different ways in different populations, that local maladaptation may be an occasional and important outcome of continuing coevolution between species, and that few coevolved traits will spread across the entire geographic range of interacting species."
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More examples"It suggests that species interactions are likely to be in continual flux as they evolve in different ways in different populations, that local maladaptation may be an occasional and important outcome of continuing coevolution between species, and that few coevolved traits will spread across the entire geographic range of interacting species."
Etymology
From mal- + adaptation.