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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The response of an organism to new conditions by changes that are adapted to those conditions.
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Examples
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We repress and overstandardise life at our peril; by over-regimentation we crush Nature's initiative and habit of intuitive self-adaptation.
Archive 2008-06-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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We repress and overstandardise life at our peril; by over-regimentation we crush Nature's initiative and habit of intuitive self-adaptation.
Freedom is as necessary to life as law and regime; diversity is as necessary as unity to our true completeness Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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We claim that the basis of self-adaptation is the use of neutrality.
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The organism is capable of “active, responsive self-adaptation,” he suggests.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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The organism is capable of “active, responsive self-adaptation,” he suggests.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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The organism is capable of “active, responsive self-adaptation,” he suggests.
Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004
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She was accomplished — possessed of that fine perception and sensitiveness, and that ready power of self-adaptation to the peculiarities and moods of others, which we term tact — and was, moreover, gifted with a certain natural grace, and manners the most winning imaginable.
The Evil Guest 2003
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Theories such as Lamarck's, which postulate an active responsive self-adaptation of the organism, are essentially a continuation and completing of Cuvier's thought.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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The mobility of labour is of course always determined within certain limits, but much may and could be done by pursuing from the beginning a right method in educating the child to develop its power of self-adaptation to the needs of a changing environment.
The Children: Some Educational Problems Alexander Darroch
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But during the past hundred and fifty years, Judaism has been wrestling with the problem of self-adaptation which both the redistribution of Jewry and the incursions of materialistic secularism have called into being.
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