The one and same process unites all features of activity in nature: the adaptation of early life to primordial environments and the adaptation of modern science to new data are unified under the principle of experience forcing adaptation in memory.
The proposed methodology draws a parallel between the nature of adaptation in complex organizations and the process of adaptive decision- making in human behavior.
Consequently, the organization of biological communities reflects this makeshift nature of adaptation and coevolution.
The evaluation highlights the incremental nature of adaptation as a further reasoning step after nearest-neighbour retrieval.
However, ACCCA (2010) studied the nature of adaptation in the drought prone areas of Tigray, northern Ethiopia, based on a survey of 160 farmers.
Thus our findings reveal that microbial communities previously subjected to water potential stresses were more capable to overcome additional stresses of similar nature, suggesting adaptation mechanisms to such type of stresses.
Most investigations have focused on two of the most prominent patterns in nature: (1) adaptation, or the 'fit' between organism and environment; or, (2) polymorphism, the maintenance of two or more phenotypic or genetic forms in a single population.
Third, the theory of evolution by natural selection makes a cornucopia of distinctive, often precise, well-confirmed predictions ranging from the nature of adaptation to biogeographic patterns such as presence of most of an island's residents' nearest relatives on the nearest continent, and the contrasts between island and mainland ecosystems (Darwin 1859).
And my discipline of biology has been concerned with the nature of adaptation since Aristotle's (another philosopher!) articulation of his four fundamental causes.
He studied Paley's Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, which made an argument for divine design in nature, explaining adaptation as God acting through laws of nature.
