Adaptation in sentence

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Some people think that religion is an adaptation evolved both by cultural and biological evolution to make groups to cohere, in part for the purpose of trusting each other and being more effective at competing with other groups.

Scientists believe that carnivory in plants evolved separately at least six times on our planet, suggesting that this flesh-munching adaptation holds a major benefit for plants.

Perhaps what’s most surprising about this malignant mutation is that it originally evolved as a beneficial adaptation.

But as the adaptation flourished, it became clear that inheriting the mutation from both parents resulted in sickle-cell anemia.

As these tools become available in the areas most affected by malaria and sickle cell disease, we can improve the quality of life for more patients with this adverse adaptation.

They aren't efficient, but they give us limitless capacity for adaptation, variation and invention.

Explanatory knowledge is the defining adaptation of our species.

So what in our evolutionary past led to this manicured adaptation, and what can nails do that their sharper cousins can’t?

We think it's a different model for climate change, one that's about adaptation and resilience rather than resistance and fear.

So it's like marrying up all the things that we have and it's an adaptation of our way of life, full stop.

This adaptation helps smaller vultures supplement their diet with dung, while larger vultures can consume diseased meat up to 3 days old.

So we basically copied the format of the comic book to actually tell the stories of behind the scenes, how our projects actually evolve through adaptation and improvisation.

So, again, transformation, adaptation, is our greatest human skill.

So I asked myself: Okay, is this a model for creation, this adaptation that we do?

Delivering the power and the bandwidth into the ocean will dramatically accelerate adaptation.

It's a very clever adaptation of religions.

So his thought was that flooding in the north of Africa actually brought those coniferous trees down tens of thousands of years ago, and what resulted was this remarkable adaptation to this unique desert environment.

Human beings have this marvelous adaptation that they can actually have experiences in their heads before they try them out in real life.

It's a marvelous adaptation.

Not the best, nor the worst adaptation of King's horror on the screen.

The movie adaptation of Heart of Darkness is disappointing, both as a movie and as a representation of Joseph Conrad's classic story.

I figured at least if they're going to make a film adaptation of the worst book I've ever read the filmmakers might as well be accurate.

I started to take a critical view on this adaptation within the first few minutes but as a dedicated Jane Austen fan I persevered through to the end...

There was something about this adaptation that lacked believability - many of the costumes and even the actors did not have an authentic look and I found the acting to be, at times, poor.

This Grade "B" ("C"?) movie is set in the Eastern part of the United States as was Orson Welles excellent radio adaptation 67 years ago.

An absolutely atrocious adaptation of the wonderful children's book.

I read a lot of high hopes from readers of the book that this would be a faithful adaptation of Nora Roberts' story.

Not having read the book, I don't know if this adaptation was faithful but I do know it wasn't good.

If you are expecting this cinematic adaptation of another Nicholas Sparks novel to follow the surefire formula of previous films, such as "Message in a Bottle," "Nights at Rodanthe," and "A Walk to Remember," think again.

This is an adaptation of an Edith Wharton work, whose writing is amazing.

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