So is the fact that blind variation and natural selection can produce a lot of adaptational change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters: Scientists Respond to Our Review of Richard Dawkins’s ‘Greatest Show on Earth’ - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

MICHAELS: I think a lot of people have not looked at the adaptational responses that human beings have.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2009] Reference

Molecular data reveal some major adaptational shifts in the early evolution of the most diverse avian family, the Furnariidae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

Such "heritage characters" could only be explained on the hypothesis that they had once had functional or adaptational meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

It would be adaptational and look a little like Isadora Duncan meets Twyla Tharp and American Ballet Theatre. on April 15, 2008 at 4:24 am | Reply Ellis Reyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [If my life were a dance « First 50 Words – Writing Prompts] Reference

The causes of the modifications which characterise classificatory groups are unknown; the second class of modifications occur in response to adaptational requirements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Darwinian evolution as in the origin of all species, not adaptational evolution as seen in anti-biotic resistance is an inessential theory to biology, and arguably an impediment.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Quote Mines: Phil Skell - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Bronn gives an excellent account of adaptational modifications and calls attention, just as Milne-Edwards did, to the numerous analogies of structure which adaptation brings about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

It also helps to explain some rather anomalous variants in quickly adaptational individuals, as well as unusual but apparently universal expression suiting amazements being documented in medical research.    From Wordnik.com.  [All These Different Creatures are Variations of the Same Theme] Reference

Thus Ernst Mayr, the dean of post-World War II biology: “When it is said that mutation or variation is random, the statement simply means that there is no correlation between the production of new genotypes and the adaptational needs of an organism in the given environment” (Mayr 1998, 98).    From Wordnik.com.  [Religion and Science] Reference

A (1988) Cladistic tests of adaptational hypotheses.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS Biology: New Articles] Reference

Reducing L2-R-feedback reduces the high-frequency content and hence adaptational "whitening" of LMC output.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

"I am bright-eyed and ready to share this physical, textual adaptational work we've been developing," she says.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

We now understand that this era of unlimited high-energy, carbon-rich fuel use has been a terrible adaptational mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [QuakerQuaker.org] Reference

Sometimes a species trait becomes part of an adaptational dynamic where more keeps resulting in a net reproductive success.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Dakota Politics] Reference

But fossils had been scarce, leading researchers to figure that this "poorly understood clade" was a brief adaptational assay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

Holmes and Rahe (1967) constructed the Schedule of Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS) to assess the amount of adaptational demand that an individual faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology has presented current research in environmental, adaptational, and comparative physiology and biochemistry since 1928.    From Wordnik.com.  [YubaNet.com] Reference

However, it is more likely that ~2 / 3 of the recordings were from the largest cells (L1 and L2), both of which therefore must show adaptational increase in sensitivity to repeated stimuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

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Because the magnitude of our dilemma encompasses the whole adaptational stance of our culture, it reaches deeply into our spiritual life; it reaches right into the center of our Quaker identity within Creation.    From Wordnik.com.  [QuakerQuaker.org] Reference

This ability has adaptive import when the milieu in which one lives is not homogeneous-that is, when it contains a number of different and distinct niches, each of which imposes its own "adaptational demands" on the individual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethical Technology] Reference

In fact, the modifications which insect larvæ undergo may be divided into two kinds -- developmental, or those which tend to approximation to the mature form; and adaptational or adaptive, those which tend to suit them to their own mode of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.] Reference

Clearly this is illogical; for it belongs to the essence of Darwin's theory to suppose, that natural selection can have no jurisdiction beyond the line where structures or instincts already present a sufficient degree of adaptational value to increase, in some measure, the expectation of life on the part of their possessors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions] Reference

Mendelians do not seem in the least to appreciate the importance of metamorphosis or of development generally in considering the relation of the mutations or factors which they study to evolution in general, because they have not grasped the fact that there are two kinds of characters to be explained, adaptational and non-adaptational.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hormones and Heredity] Reference

'the Obama administration is making rapid adaptational repositionings in this new environment of multipolarity.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Issues News Headlines] Reference

Mediated regulation plays the dominant role in visual excitation, the direct, inter-domain allosteric regulation described in this study may play a feedback role in light adaptational.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue] Reference

He works out the interesting view that there is some connection between classificatory groups and adaptational forms, especially such as are connected with the function of locomotion: -- "Based upon a common characteristic method of locomotion are whole or nearly whole sub-phyla (Hexapoda), classes (mammals and reptiles, birds, fishes, gastropods, pteropods, brachiopods, Bryozoa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

"adaptational" demands on the individual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethical Technology] Reference