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

Can specialization, in the extreme be nonadaptive?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ricardo's Difficult Idea Eludes Wonks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

They note that nonadaptive cultures are usually very bureaucratic.    From Wordnik.com.  [CORPORATE CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE] Reference

Seilacher then argues that most manifestations of the pattern are probably nonadaptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wolfram online] Reference

A lot of his recent work has been on nonadaptive processes and genomic architecture, and it has led him down some interesting paths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another predictable argument against front-loading] Reference

Natural selection does not explain why many evolutionary transitions from one nucleotide to another are neutral, and therefore nonadaptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinian Fundamentalism] Reference

The evidence comes from a form of nonadaptive evolution that has turned out to be one of the most powerful tools biologists have in reconstructing ancestry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin's Revolution] Reference

If calibration of the molecular clock uses nonadaptive evolutionary change as its basis, then how can they expect to draw adaptive meaning from the amount of that change?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin's Revolution] Reference

One of my favorite biologists, Michael Lynch, had a very interesting thing to say about the evolution of multicellularity recently: that it may have come about via nonadaptive means.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another predictable argument against front-loading] Reference

Shtulman doesn't use the term 'vitalism' but transformationism as he characterizes it involves the following characteristics: 1. Variation: Individual differences are nonadaptive or maladaptive deviations from type.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intuitive Essentialism (IV)] Reference

Population genetics has worked out in theory, and validated in practice, an elegant, mathematical account of the large role that neutral, and therefore nonadaptive, changes play in the evolution of nucleotides, or individual units of DNA programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwinian Fundamentalism] Reference

This means that the presence of group selection or the effectiveness of group selection is to be measured by the existence of nonadaptive behavior on the part of individual organisms along with the presence of a corresponding group-level adaptation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Units and Levels of Selection] Reference

Despite the fact that mechanisms of nonadaptive evolution are firmly entrenched as part of modern evolutionary explanation and are discussed at some length in Futuyma's book, they are dismissed by Ruse as only "background noise against the main evolutionary tune.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Darwin's Revolution] Reference

It can also occur as a nonadaptive, pathological change, such as prostatic hyperplasia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Lamarckism, geographic isolation, and nonadaptive evolution (see Provine 1986, chap. 7).    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncommon Descent] Reference

He was a pluralistic man and accepted a weak form of Lamarkism and nonadaptive evolution (see Provine 1986).    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncommon Descent] Reference

Speakman JR (2007) A nonadaptive scenario explaining the genetic predisposition to obesity: the "predation release" hypothesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Internet as his dream sours into a nightmare vision of a land in which "the winners," who own the future, trample over "the dead and dying and forgotten, the endangered species of the world, the nonadaptive.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Slow Muse] Reference

It is widely believed that Darwinian natural selection is responsible, but new research suggests that a separate neutral (nonadaptive) process has made a significant contribution to human evolution. press release.    From Wordnik.com.  [PALAEOBLOG] Reference

According to this model, much of the restructuring of eukaryotic genomes was initiated by nonadaptive processes, and this in turn provided novel substrates for the secondary evolution of phenotypic complexity by natural selection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discover Blogs] Reference

One reason that so little progress has been made in this area is that perfectly valid scientific concepts that employ nonadaptive evolutionary mechanisms are rarely considered because of the hegemony of the neo-Darwinian framework.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

It is widely believed that Darwinian natural selection is responsible, but research led by a group at Uppsala University, suggests that a separate neutral (nonadaptive) process has made a significant contribution to human evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

An example but is denied permission by his supervisor. of nonadaptive behavior of this sort might Another example would be the executive occur in the case of the executive who feels who wants a promotion but finds he lacks persecuted by his failure to be promoted. certain qualifications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Spandrels are a biological account of human nature ” just a nonadaptive one.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Blank Slate': An Exchange] Reference

Adaptation can, and verifiably does, take place without speciation, as does nonadaptive evolution more generally ".    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

"So what about Fodor's core point that nonadaptive changes from various sources may also be important causes of evolutionary change.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScreenTalk] Reference

An understanding of the relationships by Brown, severe punishment may cause among motives, behavior, and human goals individuals to continue nonadaptive provides the manager, administrator, or behavior blindly: "Either it may have an leader with a way of thinking about human effect opposite to that of reward and as activity and a framework within which to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference