adaptationalismn.

1922 11th Conf. World's Student Christian Federation i. 17 The elemental ideal of adaptationalism is toleration, persuasion, and moderation.

1989 L. Nowak Dimensions of Hist. Process 2 The third opposition: the one between adaptationalism and transformationalism. The former views the historical process as changes leading to the ideal state of adaptation of human designs to what is labelled the conditions.

2001 R. P. Kluft in M. J. Dewan & R. W. Pies Difficult-to-treat Psychiatric Patient viii. 230 Adaptationalism focuses on meeting day-to-day problems by encouraging the patient as a whole and the alter system to prioritize containment..and function.

1985 A. Rosenberg Struct. Biol. Sci. viii. 243 Adaptationalism must be compatible with the possibility, indeed the actuality, that many evolved structures have a present function, but were ‘not built by natural selection for their current roles’.

1988 Amer. Zoologist 28 200/2 They go on to allege that all sorts of problems with evolutionary theory, including a blind adherence to adaptationalism..can be laid at the door of reductionism.

2004 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 55 700 Besides the difficulties facing any attempt to operationalize the concept of ecological fitness, there is the objection to its suggestion of teleology in the notion of a ‘design problem’, and the definition's consequent vulnerability to charges of Panglossian adaptationalism.