Here, a more gentle force -- that of coadaptation -- is important. ❋ Jillian Burt (2010)
Just a few hundred generations of selection are sufficient to allow robots to evolve collision-free movement, homing, sophisticated predator versus prey strategies, coadaptation of brains and bodies, cooperation, and even altruism. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But he was well aware that such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory until it could be shown how the innumerable species inhabiting the world have been modified, so as to acquire that perfection of structure and coadaptation which justly excites our admiration. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
It is, therefore, of the highest importance to gain a clear insight into the means of modification and coadaptation. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Nevertheless, such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory, until it could be shown how the innumerable species inhabiting this world have been modified, so as to acquire that perfection of structure and coadaptation which justly excites our admiration. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The problem of coadaptation is no easier in the case of the ant than in the case of the Giant Stag. ❋ Gustav Schwalbe (1880)
_Harmonious adaptation_ (coadaptation) has here been active in a high degree, and yet these "soldiers" are sterile! ❋ Gustav Schwalbe (1880)
The fact of coadaptation, which was supposed to furnish the strongest argument against the principle of selection, in reality yields the clearest evidence in favour of it. ❋ Gustav Schwalbe (1880)
It is obvious that even the problem of _coadaptation in sterile animals_ can thus be satisfactorily explained. ❋ Gustav Schwalbe (1880)
With this conviction I attempted, as far back as 1894, when the idea of germinal selection had not yet occurred to me, to make "harmonious adaptation" (coadaptation) more easily intelligible in some way or other, and so I was led to the idea, which was subsequently expounded in detail by Baldwin, and Lloyd Morgan, and also by Osborn, and Gulick as _Organic Selection_. ❋ Gustav Schwalbe (1880)
The one who has drawn our attention more than perhaps any other living writer to those very marvels of coadaptation, is the foremost to maintain that they are the result not of desire and design, either within the creature or without it, but of blind chance, working no whither, and due but to the accumulation of innumerable lucky accidents. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
Nevertheless, such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory, until it could be shown how the innumerable species inhabiting this world have been modified so as to acquire that perfection of structure and coadaptation which most justly excites our admiration Naturalists continually refer to external conditions, such as climate, food, &c., as the only possible cause of variation. ❋ Unknown (1859)
Nevertheless, such a conclusion, even if well founded, would be unsatisfactory, until it could be shown how the innumerable species inhabiting this world have been modified, so as to acquire that perfection of structure and coadaptation which most justly excites our admiration. ❋ Charles Darwin (1859)
From their perfect coadaptation with the whole rest of the organisation, I cannot admit that they would have been formed by the direct action of the conditions of life. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)
