Sentence examples for useful adaptation from inspiring English sources

Landis's most useful adaptation, however, came in the form of an idea.

Like Jane Brody, I need reminders, so my perfectionism comes into play, providing a useful adaptation: I always carry a pencil and something to write on.

The struggle for existence is so extreme, according to Darwin, that every useful adaptation, however tiny, can help a species survive the Malthusian bloodbath he witnessed in his own deceptively beautiful garden.

Many scrubland plants produce seeds that can remain dormant for long periods, a useful adaptation in an environment in which periods suitable for the establishment of seedlings are infrequent and unpredictable.

Compliant legs also enabled runners to handle bigger obstacles without falling, an especially useful adaptation for the rough world in which smaller animals live, Daley explains.

Hundreds of meters below the ocean, bioluminescence is such a useful adaptation for living in near-total darkness that fish have evolved it 27 separate times, the Los Angeles Times reports.

It might also help you get a date on a Saturday night.. Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution's Greatest Puzzle by Andreas Wagner [304 pages, Oneworld Publications, 2014; Guardian bookshop; Amazon UK hardcover/audio CD/kindle UK; Amazon US hardcover/audio CD/kindle US] Publisher's synopsis: Darwin's theory of natural selection explains how useful adaptations are preserved over time.

There are also some great metaphors, such as dancing with ghosts to describe what happens when useful adaptations in a past environment become mismatched with the current environment and lead individuals into behaviors with negative impacts.

Large air volumes trapped in the waterproofed plumage, air in the air-sac system and light skeletons may be useful adaptations for floating on the water surface but these adaptations translate into high buoyancy that is energetically costly underwater [4] [5].

However, other significant changes in the axolotl proteins may play more subtle roles on p53 functions, including DNA binding and promoter specificity and could represent useful adaptations to ensure p53 activity and tumor suppression in animals able to regenerate or subject to large variations in oxygen levels or temperature.

The persistent excitation condition allows to avoid those useful parameter adaptation robustness design features as parameter projection or parameter adaptation freezing.