Adaptive Radiation
The diversification of a morphotype or species as it adapts to different ecological niches. A single ancestral type in this way can evolve into a vast range of different descendants, each specialized for the new environment, and constituting a new phyle. May refer to both biological and alife replicators.
 
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Evolutionary Biology
 
Development Notes
Text by M. Alan Kazlev

Initially published on 31 December 2001.