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- Maladaptation abstract "A maladaptation (/ˌmælædæpˈteɪʃən/) is a trait that is (or has become) more harmful than helpful, in contrast with an adaptation, which is more helpful than harmful. All organisms, from bacteria to humans, display maladaptive and adaptive traits. In animals (including humans), adaptive behaviors contrast with maladaptive ones. Like adaptation, maladaptation may be viewed as occurring over geological time, or within the lifetime of one individual or a group.It can also signify an adaptation that, whilst reasonable at the time, has become less and less suitable and more of a problem or hindrance in its own right, as time goes on. This is because it is possible for an adaptation to be poorly selected or become less appropriate or even become on balance more of a dysfunction than a positive adaptation, over time.Note that the concept of maladaptation, as initially discussed in a late 19th-century context, is based on a flawed view of evolutionary theory. It was believed that an inherent tendency for an organism's adaptations to degenerate would translate into maladaptations and soon become crippling if not \"weeded out\" (see also Eugenics). In reality, the advantages conferred by any one adaptation are rarely decisive for survival on its own but rather balanced against other synergistic and antagonistic adaptations, which consequently cannot change without affecting others.In other words, it is usually impossible to gain an advantageous adaptation without incurring \"maladaptations\". Consider a seemingly trivial example: it is apparently extremely hard for an animal to evolve the ability to breathe well in air and in water. Better adapting to one means being less able to do the other.".
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- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Adaptive_behavior.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Animal.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Antibiotics.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Bacteria.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Beta-lactamase.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Category:All_articles_with_unsourced_statements.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Category:Selection.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Climate_change.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Degeneration_theory.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Dodo.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Ecological_trap.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Eugenics.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Evolution.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Evolutionarily_stable_strategy.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Global_warming.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Human.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Mauritius.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Neuroplasticity.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Phantom_pain.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Phenotypic_trait.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Semi-arid_climate.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLink Wikt:dysfunction.
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLinkText "Maladaptation".
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLinkText "maladaptation".
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLinkText "maladaptive behavior".
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLinkText "maladaptive behaviors".
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLinkText "maladaptive".
- Maladaptation wikiPageWikiLinkText "maladaptively".
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- Maladaptation subject Category:All_articles_with_unsourced_statements.
- Maladaptation subject Category:Selection.
- Maladaptation hypernym Trait.
- Maladaptation type Disease.
- Maladaptation type Process.
- Maladaptation type Redirect.
- Maladaptation comment "A maladaptation (/ˌmælædæpˈteɪʃən/) is a trait that is (or has become) more harmful than helpful, in contrast with an adaptation, which is more helpful than harmful. All organisms, from bacteria to humans, display maladaptive and adaptive traits. In animals (including humans), adaptive behaviors contrast with maladaptive ones.".
- Maladaptation label "Maladaptation".
- Maladaptation sameAs Q4864574.
- Maladaptation sameAs Maladaptace.
- Maladaptation sameAs Evolutionäre_Fehlanpassung.
- Maladaptation sameAs Maladaptación.
- Maladaptation sameAs Má_adaptação.
- Maladaptation sameAs m.08f57h.
- Maladaptation sameAs Маладаптација.
- Maladaptation sameAs Q4864574.
- Maladaptation wasDerivedFrom Maladaptation?oldid=707224397.
- Maladaptation isPrimaryTopicOf Maladaptation.