Nevertheless, it is not a necessary assumption of evolutionary theory that every feature of every organism is adapted to some purpose, much less optimally adapted.
This might mean that species with small population sizes are much less able to adapt to their environment.
"There was fan feuding over the roots of the new 'casual' style and Liverpool, the city, had also adapted much less well to the new economic and political realities of the 1980s," he adds.
Many pubs have adapted, becoming much less blokeish.
But as conventional farming adapts, the best way ahead becomes much less clear.
Health services are not only adapted to local needs, but also to local environmental conditions and resource availability, with much less reliance on petroleum-based and globalized resources.
However, the ability of Salmonella to sense and adapt to the intracellular environment of different types of host cells has received much less attention.
Perceived risk was a single item adapted from previous research [ 39], with response options from 1 (much more likely to get it) to 5 (much less likely to get it) recoded so that a higher score indicated higher perceived risk.
"It really wasn't that we weren't willing to try to adapt," Houseman says, explaining the difficulties of policing a community that no longer has a common language, much less common social values.
Much, much, much, much less perfect.
