Sentence examples for it was adaptive from inspiring English sources
The functional argument for the adaptive significance of the trait is that salmon would not waste resources in feeding areas to change its behavior unless it was adaptive.
"But at the time it was adaptive, the way the leopard got his spots and the snake his nasty rattle".
It was adaptive in those small bands of hunter-gatherers to join the crowd, to persecute the doubter, to go cheerfully forward against the foe.
It is highly plausible that in the unpredictable and often threatening environment of the Pleistocene, it was adaptive for our ancestors to attribute agency not only to animals, whether as predators or as prey, but to less directly observable beings of other kinds as well.
Adam Hansen: When life was mostly lived at the survival level, it was adaptive to see novelty foremost as threat, not as opportunity.
According to Fodor, if it was adaptive for the frog to snap at flies then it was equally adaptive for it to snap at small, dark, moving things on the simplifying assumption that flies and small, dark, moving things were reliably co-extensive in the frog's natural habitat.
It's adaptive to not pay attention to everything".
At some level, yes, it is adaptive to be reasonably anxious.
Children are creatures of biology, not myth, and if biological nature is anything, it is adaptive.
It's adaptive management, and we monitor every step of the way".
