coevolve
Americanverb (used without object)
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Origin of coevolve
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"Studying how information flows between species gives us a powerful window into how communication systems originate, change and sometimes coevolve," said Dr. Dunkley.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 20, 2026
The two can then coevolve, as happens in living organisms.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2023
That means investigators can narrow down a protein’s shape by looking for amino acids that coevolve: Even if they are far apart on the unfolded chain, they are likely neighbors in the final 3D structure.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 15, 2021
Living things do not evolve to fit into pre-existing environments, but co-construct and coevolve with their environments, in the process changing the structure of ecosystems.
From Nature ● Oct. 7, 2014
That idea does feel apt: It is surprising how little technology exists to facilitate communication between humans and dogs, considering how intimately the two species have coevolved.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026
If that is the case, then plants and animals have coevolved the ability to produce and listen to the sounds for their mutual benefit, according to Prof Hadany.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025
It is allowing for the obvious but somehow suppressed fact that we coevolved with creatures like this owl for billions of years before splitting off and going our human way.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025
Upper Skagit people coexisted and coevolved with the bears for at least 10,000 years.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2023
In contrast, most big mammals of Africa and Eurasia survived into modern times, because they had coevolved with protohumans for hundreds of thousands or millions of years.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The idea of coevolving with the plants humans prefer to eat dates back at least 40 years ago.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2022
Out of 8.3 million identified coevolving yeast protein pairs, the AI programs identified 1506 proteins that were likely to interact and successfully mapped the 3D structures of 712, or about half.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2021
Rather than regarding machine intelligence as a threat, I suspect he would regard it as a phenomenon in its own right, different from and coevolving with our own human intelligence.
From Slate ● Feb. 28, 2019
Flowers and their pollinators are a good example of coevolving to perfectly complement one another in nature.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018
The relationship between coevolving organisms often becomes so specific that neither organism can survive without the other.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2018
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