出典:Wiktionary
mal- + adaptation
maladaptation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 maladaptations)
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2010/03/31 21:36 UTC 版)
A maladaptation is a trait that is (or has become) more harmful than helpful. It is a term used when discussing both humans and animals in fields such as evolutionary biology, biology, psychology (where it applies to behaviors and other learned survival mechanisms), sociology, and other fields where adaptation and responsive change may occur. Like adaptation, it may be viewed as occurring over geological time, or within the lifetime of one individual or a group.