Synonyms for 'adaptation
'adap·ta·tion

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1. Jerome Cohen:

   Unfairly receiving accusations with no chance of defending themselves -- this is not new, but it's an adaptation to new technology that now makes it possible for everybody to see this.

2. Sandeep Chamling Rai:

   For too long, reducing emissions and scaling up adaptation support has been hopelessly inadequate, this has resulted in worsening climate change impacts that exceed the ability of people and ecosystems to cope.

3. Thomas Huxley:

   It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward.

4. Sriram Sankararaman:

   We are beginning to learn more about the impact of DNA from archaic hominins on human biology, we now know that both Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA was deleterious in general but there were some genes where this DNA had an adaptive impact. For example, altitude adaptation in Tibetans was likely facilitated by a Denisovan introgressed gene.

5. Octavio Paz:

   The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.