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Adaptative

adjective
1.
Having a capacity for adaptation.  Synonym: adaptive.






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"Adaptative" Quotes from Famous Books



... in contemplating the miracles of Adaptation (whether real or spurious) have not unnaturally fixed their hopes rather on the indefinite than on the definite changes. The reasons are obvious. By suggesting that the steps through which an adaptative mechanism arose were indefinite and insensible, all further trouble is spared. While it could be said that species arise by an insensible and imperceptible process of variation, there was clearly no use in tiring ourselves by trying to perceive that process. This labour-saving ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



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