For instance: as the common house mosquito
adapted to the environment of the underground railway system in London, it established a subterranean population.
Similar to all species, contemporary humans are genetically
adapted to the environment of their ancestors — that is, to the environment that their ancestors survived in and that consequently conditioned their genetic makeup (1 — 3).
It helps
adapt to the environment of your house based on both location and the time of day.
Not exact matches
Companies are trying
to adapt to new business
environment following the passage
of the Affordable Care Act.
If your goal is
to be an organization that can fluidly and flexibly
adapt to complex
environments, then consider incorporating elements
of Fashion Thinking.
This is because a person living in the heavy smog
of L.A. will have
adapted to that
environment and metabolize a different set
of biomarkers than a rural dweller.
Q: How do you help aging workers embrace a changing
environment and
adapt to new ways
of doing things, and how can employers better utilize their more senior employees?
«With an ever - changing business
environment, our economic plan aims
to help our businesses
adapt to the new technological reality and foster the competitiveness
of Quebec
to attract investment for leading players,» he said in a statement.
The original concept was meant
to push people out
of their cubicles and into
environments that
adapted to a specific type
of work.
Like the late Jobs, more and more leaders are
adapting this kind
of «mindfulness» into their work
environment to help decrease stress while boosting their mental state.
He has been working with engineers and architects
to design a system that caters
to the plant, instead
of the plant
adapting to its controlled
environment like in most grows.
Digital Playbook for Entrepreneurs: Creating a Tech Startup USC Marshall School
of Business professor Dr. Anthony Borquez will be joined by a special guest lecturer
to discuss how technology is changing the world we live in and how entrepreneurs need
to adapt to remain successful in an ever changing
environment
Financial institutions in advanced economies face a number
of cyclical and structural challenges and need
to adapt to low growth and low interest rates, as well as
to an evolving market and regulatory
environment.
Goal - setting, hiring, communications and accountability are all areas where small business owners and sales managers must make adjustments
to adapt to the challenges
of a virtual sales
environment.
But as precipitous market moves in early February and late March suggested a return
to more historically normal levels
of volatility, the question for investors now is how
to adapt their approach
to the new
environment.»
Don't participate in the death
of the B2B salesman;
adapt to the changing selling
environment and go into your prospecting conversations with the cards stacked in your favor.
«Amidst the economic turmoil in 2009, SCB was able
to close the year with a healthy and above - target profit, which strongly bears out the bank's right strategic direction
to become the «premier universal bank in Thailand,» plus the bank's resilience in
adapting to a very challenging economic
environment, which resulted in the solid performance,» says Vichit Suraphongchai, chairman
of Siam Commercial Bank.
IIFL's evolution from an entrepreneurial start - up in 1995
to a full range diversified financial services group is a story
of steady growth by
adapting to the dynamic business
environment, without losing focus on our core domain
of financial services.
The combination
of low levels
of ES funds and the cash rate remaining close
to its target suggests a couple
of conclusions: first, the market players involved with RTGS have
adapted well
to operating in the new
environment; and second, participants have reasonable confidence about the availability
of cash near the interest rate announced by the Reserve Bank as its policy target.
1) Evolution specifically prefers species that are well
adapted to their
environment, and typically over long periods
of time the more well -
adapted species will eradicate the others, as they can more easily eat / reproduce / survive (and there are ALWAYS finite resources).
«Survival
of the fittest» simply means that organisms that
adapt to their
environment will thrive.
2) «Over the course
of evolutionary history, snakes have lost legs, cavefish have lost vision, and parasitic bacterium have lost the ability
to live independently in the wild, all in an effort
to become better
adapted to their
environments.»
This is backwards from the evolutionary theory
of natural selection, which states that birds
adapt and change in order
to survive better in their
environment.
In fact, Dan and I spent a good part
of the drive home time talking about the
environment in which he grew up, the different ways in which his brothers and sisters have adopted,
adapted, or changed some
of those original traditions as they develop their own parenting styles, and how we planned
to bring up our kids — should we ever get around
to having them!
In any community, out
of consideration for others I know
to adapt it's not all about me and there is need for sensitivity
to the
environment.
Here order appears as a state
of affairs in which the supportive structured society is
adapted to prevailing circumstances such that the dominant ideal
of its personal strand
of mental occasions is least frustrated by the actual world
of its
environment.
Laszlo, here betraying his indebtedness
to evolutionary thought, maintains that the most valued state
of a natural system is
to be
adapted to its
environment.
All the theory
of evolution says is that life forms
adapt to changes in the
environment over time; that there are global changes in the gene pool
of a given population
of animals over time.
We have been evoloving both physically and socially for hundreds
of thousands
of years,
adapting to our
environment and passing on learned information from one generation
to the next for us
to build upon pulling ourselves out
of the muck through thousands
of generations
of hard working humans
to get
to where we are today.
Candler's speech program was organized around a «linear - transmissions» model which arises from information theory, which can be stated as follows: «The essential feature
of all messages is information, and people use the information in messages
to reduce uncertainty and thereby
adapt to the
environment».
The socio - economic change in motion by the plantations, diseases and epidemics, created a crisis
of confidence in adjusting
to or
adapting with existence and
environment.
The details were thus
adapted, perhaps unconsciously,
to the type
of soil and mode
of building familiar in the speaker's and hearers
environment.
Animals have
to constantly
adapt to a changing
environment and thus «conscious mental imagery, explicit anticipation
of likely outcomes and simple thoughts about them are likely
to achieve better results than thoughtless reaction» (AT 41).
The superiority
of a living over an inanimate nexus
of occasions is that it does not refuse so much
of the novelty in its
environment, but
adapts it
to itself by a massive imposition
of new conceptual feeling, thus transforming threatened incompatibilities into contrasts.
It was the schooling in local self - government and the institutions so developed back in the hills and valleys
of ancient Palestine that gave the uprooted Jews immediately a social organism able
to withstand the shock
of exile and
to support and
adapt the community in its struggle
to live in an alien
environment.
Natural selection affords a measure
of stability and durability, for those populations which happen
to be best
adapted to their
environments continue
to survive as other populations tend
to die out.
We may make the planet uninhabitable for ourselves, but another species may evolve and
adapt to the sh1thole
of an
environment we leave behind.
Of course, most mutations make organisms less well adapted to their environments, explaining the extinction of so many specie
Of course, most mutations make organisms less well
adapted to their
environments, explaining the extinction
of so many specie
of so many species.
Like all youngsters, this child is
adapting to its turbulent
environment and actually incorporating social change as a phenomenon into its way
of life and way
of thinking.
franny bombaro Yes,
adapting to new
environments is part
of evolution.
If you look at the histories
of both God and the Church you'll see that the religious
adapt very well
to changing
environments.
From him I learned how easy it is for Shinto
to adapt to new situations, since one
of its major teachings is just that:
to blend with the social and cosmic
environment.
And it is part
of an ideological system that
adapts to complex, heterogeneous
environments by decoupling arguments and personalizing them
to fit unique situations.6
contagion effect: a few schisms tend
to adapt to whatever strains have been present in the
environment, but after this a larger number
of schisms generates an exponential increase in the likelihood
of further schisms.
By observing the religious ecology
of congregations through these categories, Ammerman draws out certain patterns and tendencies in how congregations have
adapted to their changing
environments.
Resources: Ammerman lists a host
of resources that assist congregations in
adapting to their changing
environments, including new programs, denominational partnership with local congregations, strong pastoral leadership, an energetic laity, education and imagination.
If their
environment were
to change rapidly they could all die off but there is a change that offspring may mutate genetically
to adapt to that change and so on for millions
of years.
The progression from each stage
to the next involves a process «
of increasing differentiation and complexity
of organization that endows the organism, social system, or whatever the unit in question may be with greater capacity
to adapt to its
environment than... its less complex ancestors.
There is a great deal
of evidence showing life
adapting and evolving
to fit the
environment.
But given our very pluralistic
environment, in which you're likely
to come up against five different worldviews in the course
of a day's encounters with the media, you need a way
of thinking, imagining and acting that makes deep sense, and that allows you
to adapt and improvise in relation
to these diverse views.