The phrase "adaptation to a changing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing how something adjusts or evolves in response to changes in the environment, circumstances, or conditions.
Example: "The adaptation to a changing climate is essential for the survival of many species."
Alternatives: "adjustment to a shifting" or "modification to an evolving".
Coinheritance of adaptive alleles could facilitate or hinder adaptation to a changing climate.
This seems comparable to the accepted use of this term in a ToL model where the conceptual identity of an organism could change along an edge due to adaptation to a changing environment, or even more abruptly before and after a bifurcating speciation event.
Species with the genetic capacity to undergo evolutionary adaptation to a changing environment can withstand or even benefit from climate change.
"You cannot just say that learning is an adaptation to a changing environment," he said.
The dynamics of memory are a consequence of optimal adaptation to a changing body.
As in this line is from the Science summary, for instance: This study suggests that past adaptation to a changing climate may have been a slow process.
Scientists often invoke adaptations to a changing climate and environment to explain morphological changes such as bone size and shape in hominids.
Although these immediate steps involve adaptations to a changing climate, they can be motivated without necessarily invoking human-caused climate change, a divisive concept among local landowners.
They are portrayed as intelligent adaptations to a changing business environment, caused variously by shrinking markets (defence), government reforms (drugs and healthcare) or technological change (media and telecoms).
In effect, the above discussion of socio-cultural changes in Soqotran pastoralists' lifestyle represents a series of internally driven incremental adaptations to a changing economic context.
Dictyostelium is a powerful model system for large-scale studies of the transcriptional and translational adaptations to a changing osmotic environment.
