biological adaptation

Biological adaptation plays a role in bodily features and skin type.

He attributed this greater difficulty to the human biological adaptation to speech.

Like so many biological adaptations, that of the cuckoo is not single but multiple.

So technology that builds the boats leads directly to biological adaptation and evolution.

The thing was a biological adaptation of an organism found in the Venusian seas.

This provides a continuing source of sexual variation, letting the society perform biological adaptation.

These are signs of a normal biological adaptation.

In his popular books, he has argued that language is an "instinct" or biological adaptation shaped by natural selection.

Such hallucinations are a biological adaptation to stressful situations.

At that time, most zoologists felt that natural selection could not be the main cause of biological adaptation.

The negative feedback loop is reinforced and the biological adaptations of the species determine its survival.

"It's a biological adaptation, bred into them by reproductive isolation and the stress of cometary impact.

Obie had made a biological adaptation of mechanical injectors; and the system was, said the medical people, amazing and complex.

All this was consistent with Malinowski's over-riding view of culture as man's distinctive form of biological adaptation.

It may signify actual biological adaptation."

We don't feel overwhelmed by the resemblance, as we are by biological adaptations - the products of cumulative selection.

They could have tried to outrun the cold, or to build better shelters and cover themselves with animal skins, or to undergo biological adaptations.

He stresses the biological adaptations that have turned most of this earth's living beings into components of what he calls "a learning machine".

Nietzsche's point of view on sickness and health, in particular, opposed him to the concept of biological adaptation as forged by Spencer's "fitness".

People can eat because they are hungry (biological adaptation), or because they like good food or want to enjoy the company of others (social adaptation).

His approach seeks to evaluate contemporary biological traits as byproducts of past biological adaptations both in contemporary and evolutionary perspective.

It is a little like language acquisition, Paul Bloom says, with the essential difference that language is a biological adaptation and religion, in his view, is not.

The genetic algorithm, which has been rather widely used in academic and industrial settings, is based on analogy with biological adaptation driven by mutation, recombination, and selection.

A new sub-species of Insectocytes have emerged using photochromic biological adaptations, similar to those found on native Terran species such as the chameleon or the cuttlefish.

Under the influence of its marine environment, one branch of the species assumed such an aquatic habit that in time it actually began to develop biological adaptations for marine life.