Sentence examples for seemed adaptive to from inspiring English sources

The idea of PBL being "business as usual" was commonly held by the students, and they seemed adaptive to this instructional change.

This situation implies that whether a laparoscopic instrument or hand was used for a video-controlled pointing task, participants seemed adaptive to this control setting in regard to movement time and throughput after the first trial.

Although it seems adaptive to have a high-efficient circuit for semantic processing, it may also lead to false memories when the neural processing in this circuit becomes faster and more efficient than the other, more literal, memory-related neural circuits.

Certainly, Keith is subject to the constraints inherent in the ICU but he seems adaptive to the care requirements placed on him.

However, for extractive foragers, which put in more effort to reach certain roots, it seems adaptive to occasionally revisit a previously rewarded stimulus (e.g. plant) even if not being rewarded immediately (Winkler & Leisler, 1999).

They concluded that whilst it does not at first seem adaptive for survival-related memories to be less accurate and in fact be more prone to false intrusions than other types of memory, it does make sense if considered as a by-product of the adaptive processing of information related to survival.

Thus, it seems adaptive radiations could be due to a combination of many nested levels of divergence that accumulate, and perhaps complement each other, to produce larger patterns of divergence.

The intermediate forms of these adaptations may not seem adaptive — so how could they be produced by natural selection?

Even though the latter effect (perception of movement when none occurs) hardly seems adaptive, it is brought about by mechanisms that are essential to ensure efficient everyday functioning of sensory systems.

While a youthful zest for exploring heights might not seem adaptive — why would natural selection favor children who risk death before they have a chance to reproduce?

This seems adaptive from an evolutionary point of view: In a moment of vulnerability (fearfulness) it seems reasonable to distrust strangers.