Character displacement

Character displacement

Adaptation of different sets of characteristics in similar species.

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character displacement

Natural environment; Coral reefs

The process by which two closely related species, with overlapping ecological requirements, interact so as to cause one or both of them to diverge evolutionarily in one or more ...

character displacement

Archaeology; Evolution

The increased difference between two closely related species where they live in the same geographic region (sympatry) as compared with where they live in different geographic ...

character displacement

Biology; Marine biology

A pattern in which two species with overlapping ecological requirements differ more when they co-occur than when they do not. The difference is usually in a morphological feature ...

character displacement

Archaeology; Human evolution

A divergence of characters in competing sympatric species resulting from selection to reduce competition over limiting resources.

character displacement

Biology; Ecology

Given two species that might need to compete for a resource, the members least like each other in what they require tend to survive and reproduce long enough to evolve into ...

character displacement

Zoology; Zoological terms

The divergence of adaptations or other characteristics in two similar species in locations where the animals share habitat.

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Genetic changes observed amongst population of organisms from generation to generation, are collectively termed as evolution.

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A raised and rounded lump is called as hump: A camel has a hump on his back.

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