The rats were allowed to adapt for about 15 min or until explorative behaviour ceased.
Together they help us see how talk about God was adapted for talk about nature, politics, technology, and art.
An opera adapted for film about the rise and fall of the tormented half crazed Tsar, Boris Godunov.
They're found on every continent, except Antarctica, and they're adapted for living in about just about any environment.
These theories can be adapted for plausible arguments about why elections may fail to meet international standards.
Two other books about incredible solo female journeys have recently been adapted for film - Wild, about Cheryl Strayed's Pacific Crest Trail walk, and Tracks, about Robyn Davidson's 1970s solo outback crossing – and the book will appeal to readers interested in a similarly epic undertaking.
Mr Peace has also written about police corruption in the Red Riding series, which was adapted for TV, and GB84 about fictional covert government workings during the miner's strike.
On a more personal level, the works of Philip K. Dick (often adapted for film) present metaphysical conundrums about identity, humanity, and the nature of reality.
One of her most popular books, "The Toothpaste Millionaire," (1972), which was adapted for television in 1974, was about an African-American boy who starts a homemade toothpaste business and successfully blocks the best efforts of Corporate Toothpaste to crush him.
By now, the elements were in place for 15 novels, beginning with Outsider in Amsterdam (1975, and adapted for the cinema in 1979), about debonair, footloose, cat-loving sergeant Rinus de Gier and his colleague, 10 years older, Henk Grijpstra, a burly man whose fine, blue suits are as frayed as his marriage to an even larger wife.
Slyly adapted for the screen by Jim Taylor and Alexander Payne (About Schmidt, Election) and beautifully shot in the forgiving, diffuse sunshine of Central California's wine country, Sideways provides a painfully funny look at the middle-aged struggle for emotional equilibrium.
