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(evolutionary theory or psychology) The state of being poorly adapted to an environment

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maladaptation

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(evolutionary theory or psychology) The state of being poorly adapted to an environment

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（進化論や心理学において）環境に十分適応できていない状態、つまり不適応な状態を指す。

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Conservationists worried that the rapid climate shift would cause maladaptation in many mountain species.

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保護活動家たちは、急速な気候変動が多くの山岳種に不適応をもたらすことを懸念していた。

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(evolutionary theory or psychology) The state of being poorly adapted to an environment

It suggests that species interactions are likely to be in continual flux as they evolve in different ways in different populations, that local maladaptation may be an occasional and important outcome of continuing coevolution between species, and that few coevolved traits will spread across the entire geographic range of interacting species.

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