Mar 4, 2014 16:39
10 yrs ago
Deutsch term

arterhaltend

Deutsch > Englisch Naturwissenschaften Zoologie
Ein funktionsloser Überrest einer ursprünglich arterhaltend wirksamem Gewohnheit.

How would you translate arterhaltend? Also, is there perhaps a comprehensive term for: funktionsloser Überrest? I seem to remember a scientific term for that in the back of my head, but I cannot come up with it now.

Thank you!

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species preserving

funktionsloser Überrest: meaningless/funtionless/useless relic
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agree gangels (X)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks Jonathan, and everybody else for your help! I have actually seen the term species preservation in scientific literature and will go with it here. "
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for species perpetuation

if you can fit it in your sentence

Reference:
P. Mühle
Fachwörterbuch Landwirtschaft Forstwirtschaft Gartenbau
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species conserving


... I would say

A species conserving genetic algorithm for multimodal function optimization
http://www.citeulike.org/user/santi515/article/1719296

Species-conserving particle swarm optimisation for multimodal functions
http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/inderscience-publishers/species-c...

Conserving more species = conserving the right species?
http://www.unifr.ch/biol/ecology/bacher/Bachelortopics2013.p...

funktionsloser Überrest = nonfunctional remains

e.g.
Nonfunctional remains of organs that were functional in ancestral species and may still be functional in related species
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/vestigial structures
Peer comment(s):

agree Johanna Timm, PhD : another idea for "funktionsloser Überrest" =vestigials of..... behavior
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