Adaptiveness

Nor can I regard myself as an exception, since, owing to a certain kind of adaptiveness in me, a sense of being at home wherever grass grows, I am in a way a native too. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Humans are humans, and modern humans, regardless of their inventiveness and adaptiveness, are not all that different from when they moved from the Eastern African plains. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The advantage of network organizations is their adaptiveness and capacity to innovate when faced with change and uncertainty. . . ❋ David Stein (2011)

Diversity and adaptiveness generate viability and resilience - of the capitalist system as a whole. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Once men came from Earth to test their strength and adaptiveness on a harsh new world - now the progress of mankind had passed Mars by, and she had become a second-class planet, her Mars-born humans only dead-end mutations. ❋ Paul (2010)

To advocates of the counterinsurgency strategy that General Odierno has, in part, come to symbolize, the learning curve might highlight the military's adaptiveness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He attributes American resilience and adaptiveness to our inventive, entrepreneurial culture, a welcoming immigration policy and first-rate system of higher education. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We\'re about to see whether he has the perceptiveness, the creativity, and the adaptiveness to come up with a new way of fighting his enemies, suited to the new realities. ' ❋ Unknown (2009)

This case study focuses on the adaptability (or adaptiveness) of the traditional Inuit economy in Nunavut in a (presumed) time of climate-induced ecological instability. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Inuit, whether Nunavummiut, Alaskan, or Kalaallit, have shown adaptiveness in the face of the incredibly rapid change in their cultural environment as they have passed through successive stages of colonization in just six or seven decades. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But it is reinforced nonetheless by the qualities of modern technology: its connectedness, its adaptiveness, its tendency to evolve, its organic quality. ❋ W. Brain Arthur (2009)

Yeah, I agree as would Spencer, and Kropotkin, and that claim is puzzling from Dawkins, actually, because my understanding was that he personally accepts some form of the argument that sociobiologists and their ilk tend to give for the adaptiveness of watered or conditional altruism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Despite the significant constraints that low-literacy consumers face, their ingenuity in coping and positive outlook are a testament to human adaptiveness. ❋ Madhubalan Viswanathan, José Antonio Rosa (2008)

The effectiveness of neodarwinism as explanation (and it has been very effective) suggests there is no need to invoke teleological efficient causes to explain lifes diversity and adaptiveness. ❋ Unknown (2005)

An improvised schedule has a number of benefits accuracy, currency, adaptiveness, but by far the most important is the energizing nature of active participation. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Nonetheless, he could not accept the conclusion some Daoists seem to have drawn from this, that we can make do without knowledge, relying only on adaptiveness; for Xunzi, the ability to adapt to a new situation depends on prior learning even when it takes us beyond the knowledge we acquired as a result of that learning. ❋ Robins, Dan (2007)

Particular attention is paid to the lessons that can be learned to assist in the design of more sustainable resource management systems – improving their adaptiveness and resilience. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As evolutionary psychologists, Richerson and Boyd argue that the German army did a better job of reproducing the conditions conducive to small group cohesion and espirit de corps among hunting and raiding parties during the "era of evolutionary adaptiveness." ❋ Steve Sailer (2004)

People are [adaptable] when conditions change. [The telephone] was [sufficiently] adaptable to go mobile and send texts. ❋ AKACroatalin (2015)

adaptation: Some examples are: hollow bones and feathers of birds that [enable] them to fly, or the [cryptic] coloration that allows many [organisms] to hide from their predators. ❋ Twiztiddezirez (2005)

When a animal is presented with a new [environment] they have to [adapt] inorder to [survive], ❋ Aslpaul3939 (2020)

Guy: I gotta got to fucking ADAPT because [the principal] caught me hitting [the pen] in the [bathrooms] ❋ It's Me, Bitch (2019)

"[Plants] in [arid] climates have adaptions in their leaves." **Odd looks from people [smarter] than you and third graders** ❋ I Am A Dumb (2008)

[Toño] [said] adaption [lmfao] ❋ I'mNotYellingThisIsHowITalk (2013)

[Adapt]: " the the fuck is good [motha] fuckin [FaZe Adapt] here" ❋ FaZeFanBoy (2014)

Hey man [what’s up] with your [phone] On that [Adapter] life I guess ❋ Oneshotduke (2018)

1) "I'm sorry, Joe. I won't be in to work today. I'm exhausted from staying up all night learning how to use my new [i-phone] and am suffering this morning from a bad case of contraption adaption." 2) "I'm now limiting my persuit of new e-toys to only those gadgets with a [low level] of contraption adaption." 3) The salesguy said: "If you buy this new Mac laptop today, I guarantee you'll start using it today." "[Yeah, sure]", I said. "I'll BET there's no contraption adaption for THIS machine!" ❋ Juan O'Malley (2009)

[I love it] I love it I, I love it I love it , i,i,I love it I love it, [said] faze adapt ❋ Zombiekillaz23 (2015)