When is it coevolution?¶
Janzen, D. H. (1980). When is it coevolution?. Evolution, 34(3), 611-612.
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- Coevolution
- Where ordinary adaptation tracks a static landscape, coevolution describes a landscape that deforms in response to every move made upon it — the reciprocal-response requirement Janzen (1980) made precise in insisting that coevolution names an evolutionary change in one population in response to another, followed by a reciprocal response in the second.
This sourceRestricts "coevolution" to genuine reciprocal causation — an evolutionary change in one population in response to a trait of a second, followed by a reciprocal evolutionary response — and removes it from synonymy with interaction/symbiosis/mutualism, fixing the closed-feedback signature distinguishing coevolution from correlated change.
- Where ordinary adaptation tracks a static landscape, coevolution describes a landscape that deforms in response to every move made upon it — the reciprocal-response requirement Janzen (1980) made precise in insisting that coevolution names an evolutionary change in one population in response to another, followed by a reciprocal response in the second.
- Dependency
- The relation has been formalized independently in five distinct intellectual traditions: graph-theoretic dependency analysis in compiler design (Aho, Lam, Sethi, and Ullman 2006), task-precedence modeling in operations research (Kelley and Walker 1959, who introduced the Critical Path Method), logical entailment in formal logic (Tarski 1936), semantic presupposition in philosophy of language (Strawson 1950), and obligate dependency in ecology (Janzen 1980).
This sourceRestricts "coevolution" to reciprocal evolutionary change between paired populations. Retained only in the obligate-mutualism Example (alongside bronstein-1994); REMOVED from marker 212 because it characterizes coevolution, not the obligate-dependency relation. (Bibliography/inline-example only.)
- The relation has been formalized independently in five distinct intellectual traditions: graph-theoretic dependency analysis in compiler design (Aho, Lam, Sethi, and Ullman 2006), task-precedence modeling in operations research (Kelley and Walker 1959, who introduced the Critical Path Method), logical entailment in formal logic (Tarski 1936), semantic presupposition in philosophy of language (Strawson 1950), and obligate dependency in ecology (Janzen 1980).
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