His temperament was adaptive, exquisitely calibrated to the moment.
Evidently their fast growth was adaptive to predator avoidance.
And what was adaptive then might be profoundly maladaptive today, in the mass societies that we ourselves have created.
"But at the time it was adaptive, the way the leopard got his spots and the snake his nasty rattle".
It was adaptive in those small bands of hunter-gatherers to join the crowd, to persecute the doubter, to go cheerfully forward against the foe.
Since sugar is a basic form of energy in food, a sweet tooth was adaptive in ancient times, when food was limited.
For example, even if rape was adaptive in the distant past, a notion that even many of Dr. Thornhill and Dr. Palmer's like-minded colleagues think dubious, that would not mean that it is excusable or should not be heavily punished.
In his extreme male brain theory of autism, Baron-Cohen postulates that having a typically male brain was adaptive for ancestral men and having a typically female brain was adaptive for ancestral women.
This month's featured speaker was Adaptive Path founding partner and ex-Googler Jeffrey Veen, who walked the audience through some of the key aspects of website design and how to deal with associated communication issues.
Regarding research in this area, Zhao et al. (2008) developed the Mobile Learning Assistant for Mathematics that was adaptive to users' preferences, learner characteristics, and the contextual environment.
