As an alternative mechanism hypermutability of the genome or specific genomic regions might allow organisms to adapt at a higher pace to changing selection pressures.
Authors have often reported that the high cognitive skills of primates, and particularly of baboons, might allow them to adapt their behaviours (here, the order during progression) to the risk level of their environment [ 29, 34, 77].
The ability to switch between feeding strategies might allow elephant seals to adapt with relative ease to environmental variability, perhaps even rapid climate change.
When the same changes occur more gradually, this might allow β-cells to adapt and function at supraphysiological levels over time, resulting in insulin resistance.
Growth rate is an essential factor for an optimal life history strategy in teleosts [ 47], and while the lack of natural selection in the domestic environment might allow extreme phenotypes to adapt to the predator-free environment, such phenotypes might be maladaptive in the wild and hence selected against, resulting in deviating optimal phenotypes between these environments.
Conversely, the considerable changes in gene expression of female placentas might allow the female fetus to adapt more comprehensively to environmental stimuli.
Studies of the function and regulation of CYP130 in the "modern" – TbD1- strains of human adapted M. tuberculosis might allow us to gain additional knowledge of some of the biochemical differences between "modern" M. tuberculosis and "ancestral" and animal adapted species.
Such changes might allow some pathogens to evade or adapt to host defences [ 27, 28].
Only stable or at least reliably reoccurring variants of certain cue-configurations might allow the network in the DG to adapt sufficiently to perceive a change of the cues as significantly new.
If this information was available, it might allow the healthcare team to 'risk-adapt' their psychological screening and support to maximise the chances of patients with OvCa with depression and anxiety being identified, diagnosed and managed in a timely fashion.
