0 the process of changing to suit different conditions:
The documentary is about corruption, crime and human adaptation to difficult circumstances.
His team's successful adaptation to life in the top-flight has come as no surprise.
Evolution occurs as a result of adaptation to new environments.
It's these evolutionary adaptations that make aphids and other insects so destructive.
Last year he starred in the film adaptation of Bill Cronshaw's best-selling novel.
1 something produced to adjust to different conditions or uses, or to meet different situations:
The phylotypes identified here will be important organisms to study to learn their adaptations to cryogenic conditions.
Our lab is using viruses of hyperthermophilic organisms to elucidate these limits, and the adaptations of life needed for survival in extreme environments.
The reason is that it is hard to decide which particular adaptations should be associated to specific user actions.
Their adaptations have made them robust and resilient to natural disturbances and harsh climatic conditions.
The occurrence of par tial adaptations to the standard languages, hypercorrections, and hyperdialectalisms indicates a rather weak knowledge of the dialect.
The view advanced here is that they identify a set of behavioral adaptations for social interaction favored in our evolutionary past by group selection.
They include cognitive adaptations to detect cheaters, paired with behavioral propensities to punish those who violate principles of reciprocity, including third-party violators.
Furthermore, speeding up biological feedback mechanisms may require evolutionary adaptations that are too complicated or metabolically too costly to develop.