If so, then your presently non-adaptive altruistic behavior in our current global environment could in principle be an expression of an evolved, indiscriminate altruistic tendency an adaptation that is largely no longer adaptive, and so would amount to a kind of 'misfiring' of formerly adaptive instincts (Dawkins 2006, 220 21; Kitcher 2006b).
On the contrary, the utility based approach adapts only if it can identify an adaptation that is expected to improve on the current allocation.
The loss of local knowledge is a particular threat to adaptive capacity because reliance on formal regulation alone will not ensure the differentiated adaptation that is required.
"It's another adaptation that is required.
The outcome is an adaptation that is in itself an invention.
But the darting back and forth doesn't serve an adaptation that is "admirably high-minded and visually gorgeous but fatally anesthetized by its own grandiosity" (Stephen Holden).
Indigenous mountain species like the llama, on the other hand, exhibit an adaptation that is heritable and has a genetic basis.
And the film, which was shot in the Hill District, in Pittsburgh — the working-class black neighborhood where Wilson grew up — is that rarest of phenomena, a cinematic adaptation that is better than its theatrical template.
Patrick Barlow, expanding on a concept by Nobby Dimon and Simon Sorble, has written an adaptation that is meticulously faithful to the film and shamelessly in love with theatrical hokum.
The trebling of weight during the first year (a growth rate unique to humans) may be an adaptation that is essential to the survival of humans as a species with a large brain.
Blandings, which airs on Sunday teatime, restores to that slot in the listings the sort of warm, innocent literary adaptation that is redolent of a mythical past Britain in which mother, father and two children huddled round a wooden television set while crumpets toasted on an open fire.
