The even darker side of smart is that competition doesn’t just select an ability to manipulate but also an adaptive ability to be unpredictable.
The Dark Side of Smart - Facts So Romantic|Diana Fleischman|September 15, 2020|Nautilus
Their specificity is related to their long-lasting effects, because vaccines engage the adaptive branch of the immune system — the B and T lymphocytes and antibodies that recognize a given pathogen.
‘Trained Immunity’ Offers Hope in Fight Against Coronavirus|Esther Landhuis|September 14, 2020|Quanta Magazine
Many of the gene losses involved traits that the animals no longer needed, but Hiller proposes that at least one loss was adaptive.
By Losing Genes, Life Often Evolved More Complexity|Viviane Callier|September 1, 2020|Quanta Magazine
There’s also a clever adaptive-suspension system, which uses a dozen sensors to scan the road then instantly make adjustments so the Aviator can glide smoothly over potholes.
Vehicles to ride out a pandemic|Joe Phillips|August 22, 2020|Washington Blade
In A Grand Journey, from Après Visuals, we get an intimate look into this adaptive athlete’s unique path to the summit.
An Adaptive Athlete and Her Home Mountain|Outside Editors|August 21, 2020|Outside Online
To see the adaptive benefits of depression, it helps to consider certain cruel but illuminating studies.
How Depression Could Save Your Life|Nick Romeo|March 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One sign that depression is an adaptive behavioral response is its widespread presence in the animal kingdom.
How Depression Could Save Your Life|Nick Romeo|March 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She loves to be outdoors,” Lori says, “She loves to swim and to ride her adaptive bike.
The Shutdown’s Human Cost: A Family’s Hopes at NIH Put on Hold|Michael Daly|October 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
What adaptive technology has been the most useful or important for you?
‘The Paralyzed Bride’ Talks Life & Sex as a 27-Year-Old Quadriplegic||February 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Proud Host Family in Support of the Rockaway Adaptive Water Sports Festival.
Heroism in the Rockaways After Hurricane Sandy|Michael Daly|November 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Even in its present fully-formed condition it is fairly questionable whether it is of any adaptive value at all.
Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume II (of 3)|George John Romanes
There is no mind quite so nimble, adaptive, or capable of simulation as that of the Pole.
The Iron Ration|George Abel Schreiner
Broadly speaking, the adaptive effects ascribed to use-inheritance coincide with the effects of natural selection.
Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited?|William Platt Ball
Here, again, we have a case of modified and adaptive instinct.
Ways of Nature|John Burroughs
This result is, in the language of adaptationists, brought about by an adaptive response of the plant to the light.