Darwin's proposal that such adaptations emerge through time in slow gradual steps was counter-intuitive to some people because it seemed likely that "transitional" forms would have a hard time of it, being neither "fish nor fowl".
Similarly, no signal of local adaptation was detected through time in a Daphnia magna population inhabiting a shallow lake with periods of different salinity (Ortells et al. 2005).
There is a tendency in school science to present the evidence for evolution as uniformly convincing and all-encompassing, failing to distinguish between what is directly observable – such as change and adaptation over time through natural selection – and the more hypothetical elements, like the descent of all living things from a common ancestor.
We confirm this prediction and show that such follow-through effects influence adaptation over time periods associated with real-world skill learning.
Re "In Snails and Snakes, Features to Delight Darwin" (Remarkable Creatures, Nov. 24): While a "single gene can cause right-left reversal" in snails, and predator-prey relationships can determine the survival of species through adaptations over time, the chemical composition of the microenvironment, wet or dry, can also have profound effects.
The Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways approach emphasizes dynamic adaptation over time, and thus offers a natural way for handling the vulnerabilities identified through Robust Decision-Making.
We saw this sort of narrative adaptation over time with Uber, and obviously with Theranos.
Jo Clifford's adaptation neatly manages multiple transitions through time and space.
Shahi Tukda: Loosely translated as a type of bread pudding, this dessert that originated in the Middle East and has been through several adaptations over time is another classic, a perfect end to any meal.
Processes of adaptation in Mathare have become institutionalised through time, as a new generation of people imagine themselves staying and (re)organise to achieve a higher level of functioning through various strategies to reduce risk.
The method achieves dynamic adaptation through a combination of time-dependent mesh node clustering in regions characterized by strong solution gradients and an optimal selection of the order of accuracy and the associated reconstruction stencil in a conservative finite-volume framework.
