BioConcepts

coevolutionKoevolution (ger.)

• Evolution involving a series of reciprocal changes in two or more noninterbreeding populations that have a close ecological relationship and act as agents of natural selection for each other, as the succession of adaptations of a predator for pursuing and of its prey for fleeing or evading. (Random House Dictionary)
  category evolution

  1920

  the facts of co-evolution between animals and plants

  Reinheimer, H. (1920). Symbiosis. A Socio-Physiological Study of Evolution: 249.

  1923

  fundamental principle of co-evolution

  Reinheimer, H. (1923). Compensation in nature. Psyche 3, 212-28: 213; cf. 217.

  1931

  the idea of the symbiotic co-evolution of organic life

  Reinheimer, H. (1930/31). Synthetic Biology and the Moral Universe: 24; cf. 159.

  1949

  [E]volution as coevolution of host and parasite

  Hardin, G.J. (1949). Biology. Its Human Implications (San Francisco 1951): 599; cf. 2. ed. 1952: 558.

  1958

  coevolution of obligate parasites and their hosts

  Mode, C.J. (1958). A mathematical model for the coevolution of obligate parasites and their hosts. Evolution 12, 158-65.

  1964

  a study in coevolution

  Ehrlich, P.R. & Raven, P.H. (1964). Butterflies and plants: a study in coevolution. Evolution 18, 586-608.

  1975

  coevolution [is] apparently a general property of systems that possess components capable of undergoing adaptive change

  Patten, B.C. (1975). Ecosystem as a coevolutionary unit: a theme for teaching systems ecology. In: Innis, G.S. (ed.). New Directions in the Analysis of Ecological Systems Part 1, 1-8: 6.

  1982

  coevolution The interdependent evolution of two or more species having an obvious ecological relationship, usually restricted to cases in which the interactions are beneficial to both species; also used for the evolutionary interaction between species having some degree of interdependence, such as a parasite and its host.

  Lincoln, R.J., Boxshall, G.A. & Clark, P.F. (1982). A Dictionary of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics: 51.

  1982

  Koevolution [...] Ein stochastisches System der evolutionären Veränderung, in dem zwei oder mehr Spezies so aufeinander einwirken, daß Veränderungen in der Spezies A die Stufe für die natürliche Selektion von Veränderungen in der Spezies B setzen. Spätere Veränderungen in der Spezies B setzen wiederum die Stufe für die Selektion von weiteren ähnlichen Veränderungen in der Spezies A

  Bateson, G. (1982). Geist und Natur: 274.

  1995

  The coevolution of organism and environment

  Brandon, R.N. & Antonovics, J. (1995). The coevolution of organism and environment. In: Wolters, G. & Lennox, J.G. (eds.). Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences. The Second Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science, 211-32.