Sentence examples for be adaptations from inspiring English sources

Also, traits can be adaptations without being currently adaptive for a given organism.

It probably goes without saying that religions may be adaptations without being currently adaptive (Sosis 2009).

They might also be considered "second order adaptations", in that it is possible that the selective learning mechanisms which help differentially transmit useful cultural traits might themselves be adaptations, and for the purpose of spreading and acquiring adaptive cultural traits for their possessors.

Some or all of these traits may be adaptations to help retard water loss.

The vanadium and niobium compounds in ascidian blood may be adaptations to low oxygen levels.

Both are assumed to be adaptations to help dissipate heat, said Dr. Richard Klein, an archaeologist at Stanford University.

Neven Karlovac, the chief executive of Microskia in Los Angeles, said that some of the company's products would be adaptations of regular cellphones.

Highly camouflaged, its huge eyes and incredibly long and slender body and limbs are thought to be adaptations to life in the dimly lit boulder fields.

"What we found was that there seem to be adaptations that occur during the running stride that can make wearing shoes metabolically less costly," says Jason R. Franz, a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado who led the study.

Both films will be adaptations of powerful, journalistic books: They Marched Into Sunlight, by David Maraniss, tells of America's sudden disillusionment with the Vietnam War, while Rajiv Chandrasekaran's Imperial life in the Emerald City reveals the surreal world inside Baghdad's Green Zone at the start of the Iraq occupation.

However, when a succession of his poems turn out to be adaptations or loose translations of Petronius, Sappho, Pliny the Elder and Boethius, you may find yourself hankering after an original voice even one as extravagant as Whitman's.There are certain exceptions to this rule.