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  2. Coexistence - Wikipedia

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    Coexistence is the property of things existing at the same time and in a proximity close enough to affect each other, without causing harm to one another. The term is often used with respect to people of different persuasions existing together, particularly where there is some history of antipathy or violence between those groups.

  3. Coexistence theory - Wikipedia

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    Coexistence theory attempts to explain the paradox of the plankton-- how can ecologically similar species coexist without competitively excluding each other?. Coexistence theory is a framework to understand how competitor traits can maintain species diversity and stave-off competitive exclusion even among similar species living in ecologically similar environments.

  4. Comorbidity - Wikipedia

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    Trans-syndromal comorbidity: coexistence, in a single patient, of two and/or more syndromes, pathogenetically related to each other. Trans-nosological comorbidity: coexistence, in a single patient, of two and/or more syndromes, pathogenetically not related to each other.

  5. Coexistence (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Coexistence is the property of things existing at the same time and in a proximity close enough to affect each other, without causing harm to one another. Coexistence may also refer to: Coexistence (political party) , Czechoslovak and later Slovak political party

  6. Ecological niche - Wikipedia

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    However, niche differentiation is a critically important ecological idea which explains species coexistence, thus promoting the high biodiversity often seen in many of the world's biomes. Research using mathematical modelling is indeed demonstrating that predation can indeed stabilize lumps of very similar species.

  7. Syncretism - Wikipedia

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    Syncretism tends to facilitate coexistence and unity between otherwise different cultures and world views (intercultural competence), a factor that has recommended it to rulers of multiethnic realms. Conversely, the rejection of syncretism, usually in the name of " piety " and " orthodoxy ", may help to generate, bolster or authenticate a sense ...

  8. Multimorbidity - Wikipedia

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    The broad definition of multimorbidity, consistent with what is used by most researchers, the WHO and the UK's Academy of Medical Sciences is the "co-existence of two or more chronic conditions". These can be physical non-communicable diseases , infectious and mental health conditions in any possible combinations and they may or may not ...

  9. Symbiosis - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of the six possible types of symbiotic relationship, from mutual benefit to mutual harm. The definition of symbiosis was a matter of debate for 130 years. [7] In 1877, Albert Bernhard Frank used the term symbiosis to describe the mutualistic relationship in lichens.