adaptive

Adjective

Meaning

Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. Charles de Gaulle

This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems. John Henry Holland

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways. Ernst Mayr

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. Johan Huizinga

In central banking circles, it is viewed as obvious that the accumulation and destruction of reputational capital more closely resembles adaptive than rational expectations - it lags behind reality. Here, I think, the central bankers are closer to the truth than the economic theorists. Alan Blinder

The emergent humans were still animals, still bound by natural law. No innovation in the way they lived would have taken root if it had not given them an adaptive advantage in the endless struggle to survive. An ability to believe in things that weren't true was a powerful tool. Stephen Baxter

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