coaction
noun
                                                                                                                            
                                                            co·ac·tion
                    
                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                  ˌkō-ˈak-shən  
                                                      
                                                          
            
            variants  
 or co-action
        
    
            
               plural coactions or co-actions            
        
    
                                
              
          
                                                      : joint or concurrent action                                      
              
                             
To be sure, in a prophetic paper the British mathematician Yule (1902: 234-235) had suggested that continuous variation might be due to the coaction of multiple factors.— Ernst Mayer
Ernst Mayer
                         
                
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