Sentence examples for not adaptation from inspiring English sources

Admittedly, this conclusion has to be made with caution since not adaptation but adaptive abilities are studied here.

In any event, he says, anatomy, not adaptation, is the right place to start.

Whether or not adaptation measures are necessary and economically worthwhile looking at the risk level and concerned species depends on the risk attitude of the decision maker.

Thus, the slow reproductive rates of the Australian old endemics reflect retention of ancestral states and not adaptation to the unique Australian environment.

The mechanism behind the observed expansion of I. walleriana into wetter climates is likely not adaptation to novel conditions – but rather residual adaptation from formerly predominant conditions that still occur within its current native range.

In other words, the ME trials are not adaptation tasks in the sense of the typical adaptation experiment paradigm, because stepping onto a moving escalator is already a highly habituated action.

The four Shakespeare films on BBC1 are not adaptations, or new versions, but 'modern reinterpretations' of Shakespeare plays for television by contemporary playwrights and directors.

Re "Depression Defies the Rush to Find an Evolutionary Upside" (Essay, Jan . 17: Asking if diseases are or are not adaptations is the most elementary mistake in evolutionary medicine.

Some traits are present and very beneficial, and yet are not the result of natural selection and hence are not adaptations.

A sea turtles forelegs are useful for digging in the sand to bury eggs but they are not adaptations for nest building (Sober 2000, 85).

Ontogenetic adaptations, including any behavior we learn in our lifetimes, can be adaptive to the extent that an organism benefits from them but they are not adaptations in the relevant sense.