Usage examples (29)

• So is the fact that blind variation and natural selection can produce a lot of adaptational change.
• MICHAELS: I think a lot of people have not looked at the adaptational responses that human beings have.
• Molecular data reveal some major adaptational shifts in the early evolution of the most diverse avian family, the Furnariidae.
• Such "heritage characters" could only be explained on the hypothesis that they had once had functional or adaptational meaning.