Meaning Of The Word Preadaptation

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Preadaptation Meaning

Preadaptation Definition
Preadaptation Definition

What's The Definition Of Preadaptation?

preadaptation in American English
the possession of certain characteristics by an organism which make it more adaptable to a future environmental change than similar organisms are
noun: a structure or property that developed in an ancestral stock and was useful in a descendant in a changed environment

preadaptation in British English
noun: the possession by a species or other group of characteristics that may favour survival in a changed environment, such as the limblike fins of crossopterygian fishes, which are preadaptation to terrestrial life

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