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(evolutionary theory or psychology) The state of being poorly adapted to an environment..
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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Maladaptation means (evolutionary theory or psychology) The state of being poorly adapted to an environment..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include adaptation.
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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