Definition of "nonadaptive" [nonadaptive]

• Not adaptive; unable to adapt. (adjective)

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• "The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces."
• "Can specialization, in the extreme be nonadaptive?"
• "A lot of his recent work has been on nonadaptive processes and genomic architecture, and it has led him down some interesting paths."