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The reciprocal evolutionary change in two or more interacting species, where a trait that spreads in one population becomes a selection pressure on the other, so the two reshape each other's genetic makeup over generations. Mode's 1958 A mathematical model for the co-evolution of obligate parasites and their hosts set the idea out in formal terms for parasites and their hosts, and Ehrlich and Raven's 1964 Butterflies and plants: A study in coevolution established the word and showed it in the chemical arms race between plants and the insects that eat them. The referent here is genetic change in living populations driven by other living populations, not a search routine that runs populations of candidate solutions against each other, and not firms and their markets shifting together.[1][2]
An optimization method in which two or more populations of candidate solutions evolve at the same time and are scored by how they perform against each other rather than against a fixed target. Hillis's 1990 Co-evolving parasites improve simulated evolution as an optimization procedure ran a population of sorting networks against a population of test cases that themselves evolved to be hard, and showed that the moving target let the search escape the local optima that trap a single lone population. The referent is a computational procedure over encoded solutions inside a program, which borrows the biological word as a metaphor; it does not describe living species changing each other's genes, and it is not organizations adapting to their environment.[3]
A framework in which organizations and their environments change together, so a firm adapts to its industry while the joint action of firms also reshapes that industry, with neither treated as a fixed backdrop for the other. Lewin and Volberda's 1999 Prolegomena on coevolution: A framework for research on strategy and new organizational forms set out this mutual view for strategy and organization research, against earlier accounts that treated the environment as given. The referent is mutual change between social organizations and the markets and institutions around them, studied over time; it is not genetic change in biological species, and it is not a population-based search running inside a computer.[4]
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