biological adaptation

collocation in English

meaningsofbiologicalandadaptation

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biological
adjective
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/ˌbaɪ.əˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
connected with the natural processes of ...
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adaptation
noun
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/ˌæd.əpˈteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌæd.əpˈteɪ.ʃən/
the process of changing to suit ...
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(Definition ofbiologicalandadaptationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Take, for example, the controversial claim that human language is abiologicaladaptation.
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In historic time, humans have not responded to environmental change throughbiologicaladaptationbut through technological and cultural progress.
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There have been several studies that have focused on the impact of chronic stress in childhood on later behavioral andbiologicaladaptation.
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The diathesis simply dispenses with the idea that low aggregate cortisol excretion is abiologicaladaptation.
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Biologicaladaptation, however, implies that the brain fundamentally changes in response to new circumstances in such a way as to produce better adjustment.
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It is possible to construct alternative accounts of the understanding of rotation that handle more of the basic phenomena and that are equally consistent with notions ofbiologicaladaptation.
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Thebiologicaladaptationof man limps behind technological development.
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People can eat because they are hungry (biologicaladaptation), or because they like good food or want to enjoy the company of others (social adaptation).
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At that time, most zoologists felt that natural selection could not be the main cause ofbiologicaladaptation.
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Biologicaladaptationplays a role in bodily features and skin type.
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He proposed a version of the teleological argument based on the accumulation of the probabilities of each individualbiologicaladaptation.
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Furthermore, biological adaptations often have features that appear nonfunctional or even dysfunctional.
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Furthermore, there are several biological adaptations that are useful only during quite limited periods of time.
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Another example of a cultural invention that is dependent on prior biological adaptations is writing.
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Most of the similarities are due to the shared environmental conditions and the biological adaptations these have imposed.
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He stresses the biological adaptations that have turned most of this earth's living beings into components of what he calls a learning machine.
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The feedback loop is reinforced and the biological adaptations of the species determine its survival.
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His approach seeks to evaluate contemporary biological traits as byproducts of past biological adaptations both in contemporary and evolutionary perspective.
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They begin with the statement that natural selection is necessarily responsible for complex biological adaptations, including that extremely complex class of biological phenomena that are human psychological mechanisms.
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