Meaning of maladaptation | Babel Free

Definitions

The state of being poorly adapted to an environment.

countable, uncountable

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.”

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