The phrase "adaptations like that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to specific examples of adaptations that have been previously mentioned or are understood in context.
Example: "Many species have developed unique adaptations like that to survive in harsh environments."
Alternatives: "such adaptations" or "similar adaptations".
I was 16, and I called it Laughing with Lizzie, because of that line by Elizabeth Bennet: "I dearly love a laugh". It was low-key at first: GCSE essays, writing about the adaptations, things like that.
The hind feet are heavily furred, and all four feet are large in proportion to body size, a snowshoe-like adaptation that enables the hare to travel over snow.
Historically, some people have been fascinated by the algorithm of natural selection producing cumulative adaptations, and postulated that something like that can/must exist in the brain.
These include fluorescent pigments that may convert light at depth to wavelengths useable for photosynthesis [ 4], plate-like growth forms, and morphological adaptations like conical knobs that may serve as coral "light traps" [ 24].
So for me, the condition for modernization is this autonomization of the religious, not necessarily liberalization or adaptation to values of freedom, things like that.
Lovely, allusive passages like that suggest a much better, more subtle adaptation nested inside this one.
Big gambles like that don't come cheap: "House of Cards," an adaptation of a classic British miniseries, reportedly cost $100 million.
There are some adaptations that are almost sycophantic towards the material and it didn't feel like that.
Now we know that pterosaurs and dinosaurs were more closely related to each other than to most other archosaurs, and that the ancestors of living crocodiles were long-limbed animals that lived on land, and that adaptations like upright posture and bipedal locomotion evolved more than once in different groups of archosaurs.
If we find evidence for the trait in a huge cross section of humans, then this supports our view that the trait is an adaptation —on the assumption that adaptations are organ-like traits that are products of natural selection but not subject to variation.
