The phrase "a time of adaptation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period during which individuals or groups adjust to new circumstances or changes.
Example: "After the merger, the company entered a time of adaptation as employees adjusted to new roles and responsibilities."
Alternatives: "a period of adjustment" or "an era of change".
The notion that there was a time of perfect adaptation, from which we've now deviated, is a caricature of the way evolution works.
Feinman-Nemser (1983) characterizes the first years of teaching as a time of survival, adaptation and learning.
In an essay citing Aiello, evolutionary biologist Zuk (2009) notes that "The notion that there was a time of perfect adaptation, from which we've now deviated, is a caricature of the way evolution works".
However, this is also a time of significant adaptations as it relates to physical, physiological, hormonal and behavioral changes (including sleep, diet, physical activity, smoking habits), new and different stressors, mood fluctuations, and changes in sociocultural identity and responses from the social environment, along with numerous other weight relevant factors.
Here we show that the chemotaxis pathway in Escherichia coli shows increasingly imprecise adaptation to higher concentrations of attractants, with a clear correlation between the time of adaptation to a step-like stimulus and the extent of imprecision.
The relationship between the space of sequences and structures, the organization of RNA ensembles at mutation-selection equilibrium, the time of adaptation as a function of the population parameters, the presence of collective effects in quasispecies, or the optimal mutation rates to promote adaptation all are issues that can be explored within this framework.
A potential problem associated with this lengthy time of adaptation is the possible selection against trypanosomes that have the phenotype of the original population.
Time of adaptation of microbiota was also shown by xylanase and cellulase activities that were not detected until day 7 and 42, respectively.
Interestingly, the time of adaptation and relaxation and back was slightly but consistently different for different beetles.
This indicates that contrast-invariance of orientation tuning is not instantaneous and rather requires some time of adaptation to the prevailing contrast to be expressed.
