Adjective : the adaptive coloring of a chameleon.    From Dictionary.com. 

Now, modesty is underrated almost to the point of being considered a non-adaptive trait.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Person of the Year Mark Zuckerberg and the DSM -- making the world safe for narcissism] Reference

There is a nice review out in BioEssays on the non-adaptive evolution of genome complexity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

"The CIA is like any other vast bureaucracy, which means it's rigid, non-adaptive, stuck," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeff Stein: CIA-Approved Psychiatrist Treats Cloak and Dagger Set's Woes] Reference

I believe that we are bordering on becoming a non-adaptive society as Congress goes ahead with the DOPA act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Societal Shift and DOPA] Reference

Centers of power are clots in a society's circulatory system -- inherently a non-adaptive reactionary element.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Slater: Why Power Centers Adapt So Slowly to Reality] Reference

In all these cases, however, the effects are similarly scattered at random, individually uncontrolled, and similarly non-adaptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermann J. Muller - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Like Hoover's, Carter's administration was ineffectual and non-adaptive, unable to meet the economic and international challenges with which it was faced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dylan Loewe: Political Legacy and the 2008 Election] Reference

Now I am supposed to believe that depression is really evolutionarily adaptive behavior in disguise even though it often leads to suicide which is almost by definition non-adaptive behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Evolutionary Model of Depression, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Furthermore, the accuracy of a social explanation is not contingent upon the benefits that society gains through the arrangement; society and its laws are perfectly capable of being non-adaptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Lynch M (2007) The evolution of genetic networks by non-adaptive process.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Characters, non-adaptive, 131 transferred from useless to useful class, 132.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinism (1889)] Reference

"The CIA is like any other vast bureaucracy, which means it's rigid, non-adaptive, stuck," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

I doubt they'll be ideological - at least for long - because dogma tends to make orgs non-adaptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [FPIF Latest Content] Reference

In addition, a variety of evolutionary processes can produce non-adaptive differences between organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sandwalk] Reference

Teleosteans, afford a good example of the contrast between adaptive and non-adaptive diagnostic characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hormones and Heredity] Reference

History not only teaches, but shows, that civilizations and species are only as fragile as one non-adaptive and careless generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Investopedia.com Headlines] Reference

As in human societies, both non-adaptive and adaptive hypotheses could explain the family members 'aid to their declining matriarch.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Here the distinction between adaptive and non-adaptive characters is recognised, but both are emphatically attributed to the same origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hormones and Heredity] Reference

If we turn to other groups of animals we find everywhere similar evidence of the distinction between adaptive and non-adaptive characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hormones and Heredity] Reference

For the more complex maneuver, the non-adaptive controller failed - the simulated jet spun out of control and crashed in less than four seconds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space News From SpaceDaily.Com] Reference

One non-adaptive trait of ideological conservatives, and their liberal cousins, is fixating more on words and symbols than on actions and results.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

There's non-adaptive HTTP streaming, which is incredibly simple, just a stream pumped out at a given bitrate, no matter what the network conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gizmodo] Reference

Support Vector Machines are just perceptrons with a clever way of choosing the non-adaptive, non-linear basis functions and a better learning procedure.    From Wordnik.com.  [歪酷博客 Ycool Blog] Reference

His weakness personal and remote communication style is non-adaptive, non-supporting, and non-flexible with those who are not (YES) men-or-women to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog updates] Reference

Assistance to a senescing matriarch might reflect misdirected (non-adaptive) behaviors that accrue no long-term or indirect fitness benefits to those helping.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The primary weaknesses mentioned above are the lack of proper adaptive quantization, lack of B-frames, lack of an 8×8 transform, and non-adaptive loop filter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom9's Forum] Reference

To assert that all characters are adaptive is as erroneous as to state that all characters are blastogenic mutations, and therefore in their origin non-adaptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hormones and Heredity] Reference

I tried selecting the axis then the end of it during work plane creation but that doesn't work on these adaptive axis like it does in regular non-adaptive sketches.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Discussion Groups: Message List - root] Reference

Since adaptive versions can be slightly more difficult than the non-adaptive equivalent, you might want to take the test as soon as you feel ready rather than putting it off.    From Wordnik.com.  [CertCities.com | IT Forums] Reference

New research suggests that in addition to natural selection, biased gene conversion (a non-adaptive evolutionary process) appears to have made a significant contribution to human evolution.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Our results lend additional support to this view, and extend it to show that indirect and non-adaptive forces can not only produce structure, but also create an illusion that this structure is being conserved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tree of Life] Reference

But their ability to apply this understanding is severely constrained by what some of them have described as Connecting for Health's enduring legacy: a non-adaptive, reductive, anti-dialogue Gantt chart culture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs] Reference

There are two kinds of congenital, constitutional or hereditary characters in all organisms, namely, the adaptive and the non-adaptive, and every distinct type in classification exhibits a combination of the two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hormones and Heredity] Reference

But, I've been working with genomes long enough to know that nothing is ever truly random - and that all kinds of adaptive and non-adaptive processes create patterns in genome sequences that confound simple analyses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tree of Life] Reference

Evolutionists agree with the transposon's role in speciation, but most still view them as only occurring by non-adaptive mechanisms, where there adaptiveness is a happenstance that is selected for, not a design quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference