arterhaltend

English translation: species preserving

16:39 Mar 4, 2014
German to English translations [PRO]
Science - Zoology
German term or phrase: arterhaltend
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!
Sabine Reynaud
United States
Local time: 07:06
English translation:species preserving
Explanation:
funktionsloser Überrest: meaningless/funtionless/useless relic
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Jonathan MacKerron
Grading 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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Summary of answers provided
3 +1species conserving
Marga Shaw
3for species perpetuation
Edith Kelly
2 +1species preserving
Jonathan MacKerron


  

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for species perpetuation


Explanation:
if you can fit it in your sentence

Reference:
P. Mühle
Fachwörterbuch Landwirtschaft Forstwirtschaft Gartenbau

Edith Kelly
Switzerland
Local time: 15:06
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 30
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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
species preserving


Explanation:
funktionsloser Überrest: meaningless/funtionless/useless relic

Jonathan MacKerron
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 19
Grading 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.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  gangels (X)
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
species conserving


Explanation:

... 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


Marga Shaw
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:06
Native speaker of: German

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Johanna Timm, PhD: another idea for "funktionsloser Überrest" =vestigials of..... behavior
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