If it changes more rapidly, few adaptive walks will be completed, and the population will be poorly adapted most of the time.
If the predator or competitor is causing the deaths of individuals that are poorly adapted to the changing environment, then the species interaction probably will facilitate adaptation.
During low precipitation periods, better-adapted trees could maintain some growth and become relatively larger compared with poorly adapted trees during these drought years.
Or are you pursuing a passion for which you're poorly adapted?
The educated and elegant Viktorovich is poorly adapted to the mortifying demands of war.
Being poorly adapted to this new habitat, Dr. Olson said, humans may have had to make many genetic compromises.
Although amphibians are formally given the status of terrestrial animals, they are poorly adapted to life on land.
Health services in low-resource countries are poorly adapted to treating chronic diseases.
Such a scale is poorly adapted to the wide-ranging species that account for a significant part of these assemblages.
While a poorly adapted animal can survive for years in a harsh ecosystem, even a slight worsening of their conditions can have devastating effects.
Did we kill off our competitors, or were the others just poorly adapted and unable to react to the extreme climatic fluctuations that then beset the planet?
