Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence brought a present-day sensibility to the characters' romantic dilemma.
The estimation of this uncertainty provides essential information for assessing climate change risks, impacts, and vulnerabilities, but also for estimating mitigation and adaptation targets for present-day and future international climate change policy agreements.
Although existing infrastructure and long-term agreements (such as hydropower concessions) constrain present-day and future decisions, a pragmatic strategy of adaptation can, in many cases, accommodate evolving scientific understanding and societal expectations.
Feces and urine were collected for 5 days after a 5-day adaptation period.
Irrespective of future climate change, coastal hazards already impact countless communities and the appropriate use of ecosystem-based adaptation strategies offers a valuable and effective tool for present-day management.
The Utah Science Core Curriculum in Biology is even more specific about links between evolution and present-day biodiversity, calling for students to understand adaptation and natural selection, speciation, origins of genetic variation, transitional fossils, and phylogenetic reconstruction, among several other important topics in evolutionary biology.
A key source of evidence that present-day selection can override historically contingent effects comes from the repeated evolution of similar adaptations in different taxa.
A separate new adaptation, titled Relative Insanity and starring David Duchovny and Helen Hunt in the leads, was due to relocate Chekhov's brooding bourgeoisie from a Russian country estate to present-day New York City and The Hamptons.
Present-day Skyros is a resort.
Ancient peoples in the present-day Plateau and Great Basin culture areas created distinctive cultural adaptations to the dry, relatively impoverished environments of these regions.
