maladaptation

"If they didn't torc the children in the first place, there'd be no maladaptation!"

First, the nurse makes a judgment with regard to the presence or absence of maladaptation.

Background population maladaptation can be driven by natural processes.

Human actions of habitat fragmentation drive maladaptation up and adaptive potential down.

If their maladaptation is severe, their families persuade them to seek aid.

Sometimes referred to as a "maladaptation," this episode bears almost no resemblance to the novel.

A maladaptation is a trait that is (or has become) more harmful than helpful.

Jung proposed that this occurs through maladaptation to one's external or internal realities.

These disorders include winter depression, jet lag, maladaptation to shift work and certain types of sleep disturbances.

"The trouble," said Klossig, "is that we automatically take for granted a maladaptation of humanoid to environment.

Note that the concept of maladaptation, as initially discussed in a late 19th-century context, is based on a flawed view of evolutionary theory.

Sometimes maladaptation happens.

Much adaptation takes place in relation to short-term climate variability, however this may cause maladaptation to longer-term climatic trends.

Potter JD: Epidemiology of diet and cancer: evidence of human maladaptation.

Maladaptation can result in negative effects that are as serious as the climate-induced effects that are being avoided.

During the 60's, Father Mario comes to the conclusion that the underlying problems, the social causes of abandonment, maladaptation and social exclusion remain yet unresolved.

He considers the term "mean" to be inappropriate and a theoretical distortion when questions of adaptation or maladaptation, congruence or ineffectiveness are more to the point.

Natural selection results in the reduction of genetic variation through the elimination of maladapted individuals and consequently of the mutations that caused the maladaptation.

Jacobs S: Pathologic Grief: Maladaptation to Loss.

In these cases, individuals' protective functioning is more influenced by their past experiences than by their current circumstances, creating the potential for current maladaptation and psychopathology.

Alarmed, Sukey perceived the random neural firing within his brain that signaled the onset of a spasm induced by his maladaptation to the gray torc.

Now, however, the body's desire for sweets - like its taste for fats - is too easily satisfied, in what Dr. Tiger calls a "maladaptation" of relatively recent vintage.

Assess priority socioeconomic issues related to climate adaptation, including barriers to effective adaptation, co-benefits of adaptation and mitigation strategies, and potential "maladaptation" (i.e., unintended consequences).

Acculturative stress refers to the psychological, somatic, and social difficulties that may accompany acculturation processes, often manifesting in anxiety, depression and other forms of mental and physical maladaptation.

This includes a concern for the health of one's people, that ill-health not only leads to maladaptation, but also to the decay of the strength capacity and character of the nation.