0 having an ability to change to suit changing conditions: --
These governments do not possess the adaptive capacity to endure such changes.
2 changing quickly to suit different conditions: --
adaptive processes/systems/strategies
Their favoured approach seems to be adaptive management, in which policymakers alter their policies as conditions change.
Adaptive organizations rely on fast feedback from customers to respond to market changes.
The population ecology of contemporary adaptations: what empirical studies reveal about conditions that promote adaptive evolution.
This availability of the facial display of pain confers adaptive benefit on the individual, kin, and others, but only when attended to by observers.
Moreover, it sheds some light on the evolution of leaders' expectations and on the adaptive character of their interests and strategies.
Triculines form a wholly aquatic group exhibiting today an amazing adaptive radiation of three tribes, over 20 genera and more than 120 species.
It is worth recalling that the behaviorist school of psychology also explained human and animal behavior by a backward-looking and unthinking adaptive mechanism, namely, reinforcement.
At present, the adaptive manipulation hypotheses are supported only indirectly, with reference to the apparent functionality and complexity of the host modification.
It is argued that thinking about one's own thoughts would have adaptive value by enabling first order linguistic thoughts to be corrected.
There are strong evolutionarily adaptive links between the ability to fall asleep and perceptions of safety versus threat.
