The phrase "adaptation itself" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the concept of adaptation as a standalone idea or to distinguish it from other related concepts.
Example: "In the context of evolution, adaptation itself plays a crucial role in the survival of species."
Alternatives: "the adaptation process" or "adaptation as a concept".
Flexible: Adaptation itself must also be flexible and adaptive.
How this makes you feel depends, I guess, on how you feel about the adaptation itself.
This is a movie about a depressed Hamlet, though the adaptation itself has a mischievous and stinging intelligence, and its own kind of sullen beauty.
The current landscape of this work is scattered: I&M examples, frameworks, and guidance documents reflect motivations, contexts, and approaches as diverse as the field of adaptation itself.
However, other participants argued that adaptation itself is a context-specific issue, and several suggested that the IPCC could make its WGII reports more useful in informing action to adapt to climate change by incorporating local-level evidence.
In we showed that the dynamics of this adaptation itself is optimal, so that the speed with which the system adjusts to a change in input distribution is close to the limit set by the need to gather statistics.
The result is fascinating portrait of the "dark matter of the mind," one that shows that our greatest evolutionary adaptation is adaptability itself.
But is job-market adaptation by itself sufficient?
For the purpose of this Clause, adaptation of itself does not amount to derogatory treatment.
"ADAPTATION" is itself a sly and slippery meditation on the ways movies can transform complex stories into cut-and-dried clichés.
What is revolutionary about argumentative theory is that it presumes that since reason has a different purpose — to win over an opposing group — flawed reasoning is an adaptation in itself, useful for bolstering debating skills.
