A claim could be made that the creative forces behind the movie were not faithful to the text they were adapting, but a more straightforward adaptation would have involved watching someone do fifty jumping jacks and prattling on about stealing batteries while high on cocaine.
The Inupiat were adapting, and thriving.
What stood out as you were adapting this book?
By midmorning, some of Ms. Sykes's charges were adapting better than others.
Both were large tasks as we were adapting to a changing world.
"When we were adapting the book, a lot of personal stuff went in there from Richard," said Westmoreland.
At the time, Dr. Lipkin and his colleagues were adapting new genome sequencing machines to virus hunting.
If that's true, adaptation is nearly as fundamental an imaginative function as storytelling itself -- and who knows what the earliest storytellers were adapting from?
The uproar over teenage childbearing probably reinforced what was already under way, Mr. Furstenberg said: Poor teenagers were adapting to a new timetable for growing up.
In each race, some 200 genes showed signals of selection, but without much overlap, suggesting that the populations on each continent were adapting to local challenges.
The selected genes he has detected fall into a handful of functional categories, as might be expected if people were adapting to specific changes in their environment.
