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adapt
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adapt someone or something
to something to cause someone or something to change, adjust to, or get used to something else. Can't you adapt yourself to my way of doing things?

adapt something for something

to change or alter something for use with something else. Has this furnace been adapted for natural gas?

adapt something from something

to derive something from something else; to create by modifying something else. I adapted my new musical from a novel.

adapt something to something

to convert something to fit or work with something else. We converted our furnace to natural gas.

adapt to something

to adapt or get used to someone or something. Please try to adapt to our routine.


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In the environment of evolutionary adaptedness there was no one-way acquaintance, as there is today with celebrities.
Dawkins likens the adaptedness of an organism to its environment in the way a key embodies information about a lock.
Rubin begins with a nice discussion of the environment of evolutionary adaptedness (EEA) and the impact that environment would have had on early humans.
 
 
 
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