What is "adaptive"

Usage examples of "adaptive".

We are least likely in the modifications of these organs to mistake a merely adaptive for an essential character.

We can understand, on these views, the very important distinction between real affinities and analogical or adaptive resemblances.

On my view of characters being of real importance for classification, only in so far as they reveal descent, we can clearly understand why analogical or adaptive character, although of the utmost importance to the welfare of the being, are almost valueless to the systematist.

As the points of affinity of the bizcacha to Marsupials are believed to be real and not merely adaptive, they are due on my theory to inheritance in common.

No innovation in the way they lived would have taken root if it had not given them an adaptive advantage in the endless struggle to survive.

Vaguely sensing a contradiction, he then exempts his own global-theorizing stance from having any adaptive value.

He must do this, because if he admits that a world-centric, global perspectivism has adaptive advantage over narrower perspectives, then he must admit that his cultural stance of universal-global perspectivism is superior to those cultures that he studies that do not share his universal pluralism.

In answer he attempts to relate psychological patterns to evolutionary adaptive behavior.

To consider simplicity and complexity, chaos and emergent order, self-similarity in complex adaptive systems, Kauffrnan models and much else.

The term is therefore a generic one, comprising all those faculties of mind which are concerned in conscious and adaptive action, antecedent to individual experience, without necessary knowledge of the relation between means employed and ends attained, but similarly performed under similar and frequently recurring circumstances by all the individuals of the same species.

So perhaps he had an edited cerebral chemistry, or an adaptive aural processing mutation in his derivative Kido lineage.

Much of the material in the short-term store becomes lost - and presumably functionally so, as it is really not biologically adaptive to remember for ever everything that we need to recall for only a few minutes.

With such clearly adaptive consequences for the culture, it is not surprising that the rule for reciprocation is so deeply implanted in us by the process of socialization we all undergo.

To help you get a clearer view of your self-concept and inner critic, the roles you play and want others to play with you, your natural and adaptive child, and, thus, your life position and life script.

Research has shown that self-disclosers are more self-content, more adaptive and competent, more perceptive, more extroverted, more trusting and positive towards others than non-disclosing persons.