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Coevolution terminolgy: We need new words. Please help.

I often find that I want a single word that means “coevolve toward mutualism” or “coevolution away from mutualism.” People often use the term coevolve as if it implied mutualism but hunters and prey or parasites and hosts also coevolve. As we develop as a movement, we will need a word to mean the kind of evolution that we seek – “evolution” itself implies change but, at least as used by scientists, not directionality.The best I have come up with are:

  • conevolve and dievolve, by analogy with converge and diverge; or
  • adevolve and disevolve, by analogy with adjoin and disjoin.

What do people think? Are there better alternatives? Is there any good reason to prefer one of these pairs over the other? Would you rather be a part of the movement for conevolution or the adevolutionary movement?

 

Andrew

Submitted by Andrew Hoerner on January 25, 2007 - 11:31.

carefully measured weasel words

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