adaptative

• “He has worked on building behavioral models to explain adaptative responses to climate change.”

  Contributor: S. Niggol Seo

• “I imagine adaptation insofar as human intelligence goes, which certainly allows us to be supremely adaptative.”

  Adaptationism

• “I agree completely with TR … you act like global warming is something we can adapt to, but you need to remember that the larger the change and the shorter the time frame, the more challenging the adaptative and economic impacts will be.”

  Think Progress » Global Warming Skeptics Engage In Denial And Spin Over New Academy Report; Gore Responds

• “According to the Ambient Intelligence vision, devices in our homes, offices, cars and public spaces will be interconnected, adaptative, personalized and context-aware.”

  Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Ambient Intelligence and Smart Surroundings in the Netherlands

• “A scientist thinks he has uncovered the secrets to the adaptative powers of the animal kingdom, via the pineal gland.”

  Archive 2008-11-01

• “Introgresions actually should be clearly adaptative, otherwise the chances are virtually zero.”

  Neanderthal DNA

• “To make a case for violence being coded as programs of behaviour as a result of adaptative forces one needs to demonstrate evidence of such programs, not merely the ubiquity of violence.”

  Mind Hacks: Are we designed for violence?

• “In my opinion, Pinker and other evolutionary psych advocates are very strong at gesturing to the adaptative forces that inevitably, inexorably, just must have been the cause of behaviour we see today perhaps because it gives them a chance to take a break from proper science and read lots of Hobbes on the 'war of all against all'.”

  Mind Hacks: Are we designed for violence?

• “The one who acquires self-control, who gives in during the adaptative period of which we have written, is not the weaker.”

  The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

• “Popularly spoken of as the "lying-in period," and medically known as the puerperium, this time of convalescence immediately following childbirth is usually occupied by two important things: the restoration of the pelvic organs to their normal condition before pregnancy, and the starting of that wonderfully adaptative mechanism concerned with the production of the varying and daily changing food supply of the offspring.”

  The Mother and Her Child

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