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Stability, adaptability and adaptation
1998Allied to the phenomena of genotype—environment interactions, discussed in the previous chapter, are the topics of stability, adaptability and adaptation, topics which arouse considerable interest among plant breeders. Indeed, not only do they excite interest, they often cause confusion because terms such as phenotypic stability, yield stability ...
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The general adaptation syndrome and the diseases of adaptation
Journal of Allergy, 1946I. INTRODUCTION SINCE the first description of the “alarm reaction,” a decade ago, many publications have dealt with this phenomenon and with the “general adaptation syndrome,” of which it forms a part. It is becoming increasingly more obvious that certain physiologic mechanisms, in which the endocrin system plays a prominent part, help to raise ...
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Adaptation and adaptive radiation
2019A key outcome of evolution by natural selection is adaptation. Since the beginning of the age of genetics, evolutionary biologists have focused on the evolution of nuclear genes as the basis for adaptation. Changes to the mitochondrial genome were long viewed as the result of drift and unimportant to organism fitness.
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Adaptation Theory and Adaptation Scholarship
2017Adaptation studies and adaptation scholars have persistently been faulted for theoretical failure. Developing the argument that this critique is the fallout of a dysfunctional relationship between adaptation and theorization in the humanities, this essay examines particular problems that have arisen in adaptation scholarship as a result of adaptation’s
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An Adaptation to an Adaptation!
Occupational Therapy: the Official Journal of the Association of Occupational Therapists, 1960openaire +2 more sources
2018
The adherents of directed evolution claimed that adaptation to the environment was not the main driving force of evolution. Their opponents either denied instances of inadaptive evolution or insisted that adaptive changes were by far more numerous and therefore evolution in general was the creation of adapted organisms.
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The adherents of directed evolution claimed that adaptation to the environment was not the main driving force of evolution. Their opponents either denied instances of inadaptive evolution or insisted that adaptive changes were by far more numerous and therefore evolution in general was the creation of adapted organisms.
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