The phrase "mere adaptation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is simply adjusted or modified from its original form, without any significant changes or improvements. Example: The film was criticized for being a mere adaptation of the book, lacking the depth and emotional impact of the original story.
With the double perspective defined in this approach, it is intended to go further from a mere adaptation to certain user stereotypes, offering also a dynamic support to real limitations or difficulties users can encounter during the use of the UI.
Of course, the temperate phage symbiont cannot be considered a mere adaptation of its carrier.
There is however an alternative explanation which has been widely disregarded until now, i.e., that these changes may reflect mere adaptation to a high-fructose diet.
Our deepest emotions are not mere "adaptations", "hard wired" in the human cortex; if you reduce people to balls of cells, you wipe away intention, responsibility, freedom and emotion.
In the Modern Age and Renaissance, European herbals diversified and innovated, and came to rely more on direct observation than being mere adaptations of traditional models.
Whether these alterations of glucose and lipid metabolism following fructose ingestion are mere adaptations to a transient change in diet or will in the long term be causally associated with adverse vascular effects remains unknown.
His black humour raises this superior poteen-boiler above mere historical adaptation.
The fact that such learning can last for several days lends evidence to this argument29 and makes it unlikely that such form of learning reflects a mere and short-lived adaptation effect.
These findings imply that behavioral properties of stepping onto a stopped escalator do not simply reflect a mere aftereffect of motor-specific adaptation [9] or of sensory association adaptation [10], or an aftereffect of "short-term" adaptation specific to a moving escalator as in the mobile sled task in [3] [5].
What they disagree about is why a tendency to believe evolved, whether it was because belief itself was adaptive or because it was just an evolutionary byproduct, a mere consequence of some other adaptation in the evolution of the human brain.
His picks for heads of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Energy Department have both questioned the accepted science of global warming — and his choice for secretary of state, while not necessarily a climate skeptic, has optimistically suggested that climate change is a mere "engineering problem" which certain adaptation measures can address.
