Obvious examples of natural and human selection for
adaptedness involve the increases in plant density and N application associated with the increase of U.S.
success of
adaptedness, sounds genecologically seminal.
The present analyses consider population means for 20-yr height and survival, both of which reflect
adaptedness to the biotic and abiotic environment.
At the highest level of their hierarchy is the adaptive problem--if one knows what a biological information processing device was designed to do (i.e., what function a mental module served when it was selected during the environment of evolutionary
adaptedness, or EEA), then one has a computational theory for the device in Marr's sense.
The
adaptedness of spines will be inferred through assessment of: (a) the functional role of spines, (b) the impact of T.
The six-percent solution: second thoughts on the
adaptedness of the Marsupialia.
The other mechanisms explain biological form, but not the
adaptedness of biological form.
There are no special design features in the brain developed in the EEA (Environment of Evolutionary
Adaptedness) and reserved for an art-essence, for instance film art, to be invented many years later.
A good state of adequacy is described as a person's
adaptedness in actual life situations, that is, to have set realistic goals in his or her life plan, possess adequate abilities to realize these goals, and experience appropriate circumstances in the environment to realize these goals.
The study of adaptation is the study of
adaptedness in an historical context (Gould and Vrba 1982, Coddington 1988, Baum and Larson 1991, Leroi et al.
The
adaptedness of the floral phenotype in a relect endemic, hawkmoth-pollinated violet.
Gould thinks that history does exhibit directionality, but of the very opposite kind: diversity is maximal shortly after the invention of multi-cellular animals, and thereafter diversity has declined without any compensatory increase in
adaptedness or complexity.
As MURRAY SMITH observes, I locate this issue within an account of a broad theoretical conflict over "massive modularity" and the nature of the EEA or "environment of evolutionary
adaptedness." Evidence bearing on that conflict derives from multiple areas of research, each of which itself contains important unsolved problems.
Exploring these variation patterns with respect to environmental factors or connecting these patterns to the resistance patterns of flax diseases may result in grouping of accessions with similar
adaptedness or disease resistance and thus would facilitate the search for unique genotypes from the collection.