Sentence examples for adaptation greater from inspiring English sources

In the latest World Economic Forum Global Risks survey, which polls CEOs and world leaders, the top 10 risks identified by respondents were in essence variations on a couple of themes: economic uncertainty or climate and resource-related issues ("water crises", "failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation", "greater incidence of extreme weather events", and "food crises").

A high density of rods is instead found around the central 5°-6° such that following dark adaptation greater sensitivity is observed in this retinal area [ 1, 3].

That is, is the rate of adaptation great enough that, on average, a recent adaptive fixation will have occurred in a gene undergoing recurrent adaptation?

In Jay Presson Allen's original adaptation, great stress was laid on discovering which of her pupils ultimately betrayed Brodie to the school authorities.

Early in the week, Radio 4 revealed the highlights of its new radio season (Lauren Laverne doing a series of Late Night Woman's Hour shows with Jane Garvey; Glenda Jackson returning to acting in a Zola adaptation: great).

Their next two pictures were the Dickens adaptations "Great Expectations" and "Oliver Twist," both directed by Lean and produced by Mr. Neame.

After years as a highly regarded editor, he co-directed Noel Coward's In Which We Serve (1942) and after three further Coward films he made his masterly Dickens adaptations, Great Expectations and Oliver Twist.

He collaborated with Lean, who was beginning his directorial career, on several of those films and then on many of Lean's celebrated early works, including the Charles Dickens adaptations "Great Expectations" (1946) and "Oliver Twist" (1948).

Under positive selection for a novel expression phenotype, this may speed adaptation, since greater mutational robustness generates greater genetic diversity and can help speed adaptation [ 22].

"The younger generations who'll pay for increased spending see climate change and technological adaptation as greater challenges than the ageing society," he added.

I suspect that there is a lot more genetic variability out there that will allow for more adaptation and greater persistence than we currently anticipate.