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- noun The state or quality of being
adaptive ; capacity toadapt .
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Examples
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Now the core of natural selection is the claim that phenotypic traits are selected for their adaptivity, that is, for their effect on fitness.
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Play also facilitates organizational learning, creativity, community-building and group cohesion, and overall, enhances adaptivity and attentiveness.
Dr. Tian Dayton: Researchers Say:Adults Need to Play More! Dr. Tian Dayton 2011
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But there are a couple moments where a nerd red flag pops up, and dare I say that itself is a bi-product of his attention to detail and mostly consistent strict adaptivity.
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Play also facilitates organizational learning, creativity, community-building and group cohesion, and overall, enhances adaptivity and attentiveness.
Dr. Tian Dayton: Researchers Say:Adults Need to Play More! Dr. Tian Dayton 2011
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In other words, we need a sufficiently flexible medium (like proteins), a favorable environment, and the initial state must be biased towards adaptivity and increased complexity.
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AGR's chief executive, Carl Gilleard, said: In difficult economic times, graduates are showing flexibility and adaptivity.
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This is a statement concerning the geometry of the evolving design space. chunkdz: and the initial state must be biased towards adaptivity and increased complexity.
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A journey of a thousand jumps begins with a single jump – each jump requiring the same set of conditions. chunkdz: and the initial state must be biased towards adaptivity and increased complexity.
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Actually, they considered that complexity may be a response to unfavorable environmental perturbations. chunkdz: and the initial state must be biased towards adaptivity and increased complexity.
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"It's a wonderful example of human resourcefulness and adaptivity."
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