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Ethology and Sociobiology, 1990
Abstract This essay is structured as follows. First, I describe the adaptationist program, or teleonomy, in biology. Second, I review the methodologies of this program. Third, I discuss the role that the environment of evolutionary adaptedness plays in the adaptationist program.
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Abstract This essay is structured as follows. First, I describe the adaptationist program, or teleonomy, in biology. Second, I review the methodologies of this program. Third, I discuss the role that the environment of evolutionary adaptedness plays in the adaptationist program.
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Adaptation and the effort needed to adapt
Proceedings of the 48h IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) held jointly with 2009 28th Chinese Control Conference, 2009Tuning a system to an operating environment calls for experimentation, and a question that arises naturally is: how many experiments are needed to come up with a system meeting certain performance specifications? This paper is an attempt to answer this fundamental question at a somehow general level.
BITTANTI, SERGIO +2 more
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2012
AbstractWhy is it important to understand early experience in the context of the environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA)? The answer hinges on the meaning of the term adaptation, and different meanings of this term have different implications for the contemporary relevance of early hominid practices.
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AbstractWhy is it important to understand early experience in the context of the environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA)? The answer hinges on the meaning of the term adaptation, and different meanings of this term have different implications for the contemporary relevance of early hominid practices.
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Shared adaptiveness is not group adaptation
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2013AbstractClimate stresses and monetary resources seem to lead to different collective adaptations. However, the reference to adaptation and to ambiguous collective dimensions appears premature; populations may entertain nothing more than shared adaptiveness.
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2019
This essay analyzes the process of adaptation from Susan Orlean's book THE ORCHID THIEF to the motion picture ADAPTATION (directed by Spike Jonze)
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This essay analyzes the process of adaptation from Susan Orlean's book THE ORCHID THIEF to the motion picture ADAPTATION (directed by Spike Jonze)
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2010 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE 2010), 2010
Erik Jan Marinissen +8 more
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Erik Jan Marinissen +8 more
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2007
Various user groups, e.g. people with a disability, could benefit highly from products or interfaces that could either be adjusted (adaptability) or adjust themselves (adaptivity) to the needs of individual users. Advances in technology are gradually enabling designers to create such products, but guidelines that help designers doing this are scarce ...
Hengeveld, B.J. +5 more
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Various user groups, e.g. people with a disability, could benefit highly from products or interfaces that could either be adjusted (adaptability) or adjust themselves (adaptivity) to the needs of individual users. Advances in technology are gradually enabling designers to create such products, but guidelines that help designers doing this are scarce ...
Hengeveld, B.J. +5 more
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2018
This thesis investigates the engagement of prominent British literary writers in adaptations of their works to theatre and film between 1823 and 1938 to understand how unregulated adaptations, new media, media rivalries, the variable position of writers within and across media, and other social, cultural, economic, and legal ...
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This thesis investigates the engagement of prominent British literary writers in adaptations of their works to theatre and film between 1823 and 1938 to understand how unregulated adaptations, new media, media rivalries, the variable position of writers within and across media, and other social, cultural, economic, and legal ...
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The costs of infrastructure adaptation
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2021Graham Simpkins, Simpkins Graham
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A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change
Nature Climate Change, 2021Lea Berrang-Ford +2 more
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