The phrase "adaptations towards" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes or modifications made in response to a particular situation or environment.
Example: "The species showed several adaptations towards the changing climate, allowing it to survive in harsher conditions."
Alternatives: "adaptations to" or "adjustments for".
They include four main genera, namely, Boleophthalmus, Periophthalmodon, Periophthalmus and Scartelaos1 comprising diverse species that represent a continuum of adaptations towards terrestrial life with some being more terrestrial than the others.
We argue that the frequent occurrence of inbreeding in combination with imperfect behavioural adaptations towards its avoidance promote the evolution of diploid male fertility.
Consequently, we would have predicted the evolution of behavioural adaptations towards inbreeding avoidance rather than diploid male fertility both in E. foraminatus and in C. glomerata.
The shape of the appendicular bones in mammals usually reflects adaptations towards different locomotor abilities.
In contrast, adaptations towards different modes of locomotion seem to have little influence.
Such a transition has required adaptations towards water saving and breathing dry air.
The results presented here also have echoes of Sewall Wright's hypothesised effect of "mass selection under changing conditions" [ 39], in which adaptation towards a novel adaptive peak in a changed environment creates a persistent genetic shift that orients the population towards an alternate peak when the original adaptive landscape is restored.
Three different situations are explored: the mutation-selection equilibrium (optimized population) in three different fitness landscapes, the dynamics during adaptation towards a goal structure (adapting population), and the behavior under periodic population bottlenecks (perturbed population).
This dynamic smoothing prevents the population from becoming trapped at local maxima in the adaptive landscape and thereby permits more effective adaptation towards global maxima.
This could explain a local adaptation towards hypercarnivory in the northwest population of Arctodus (Fig. 2).
BM homing and retention necessitates morphological adaptation towards migratory phenotype and are mainly promoted by MSCs releasing the chemokine SDF-142.
