nonadaptive

Examples

• All

• The only problem with fear is that it has largely become inappropriate and nonadaptive.

  The Haunting (1999)

• In any environment, hundreds of possible anatomies might work, and the form and color of this particular population in that specific valley are fortuitous consequences of the largely nonadaptive mutations that happened to arise and spread in an isolated population.

  Academic text (1991)

• The resultant pattern of differences among valleys is largely nonadaptive.

  Academic text (1991)

• Each must have originated as a nonadaptive spandrel, since the human brain achieved its present size and structure tens of thousands of years prior to literacy.

  Academic text (2007)

• First, he was probably right in his central claim about the nonadaptive nature of most small-scale differences in form and color among snails of adjacent valleys.

  Academic text (1991)

• But economics alone cannot account for the viability of class consciousness in contemporary social interaction, and the persistence of pastoral nomadism when it is nonadaptive economically.

  Academic text (1992)

• So too had Dennett maligned the importance of "spandrels," structural yet nonadaptive by-products of evolutionary change as fodder for later adaptive reuse.

  Academic text (2007)

• Different alleles become fixed in different subpopulations, with some fixed for nonadaptive variants (which are more likely to go extinct), creating an overall reduced level of adaptive variation that in turn leads to a loss of adaptive potential.

  Academic text (2011)

• The nonadaptive traits of the animal prevent it from surviving in harsh climates.

• In his theory, he argued that several behaviors in humans are nonadaptive and hinder our ability to adapt to modern life.

Antonyms

A

adaptive

33 4.9

Able to change to fit new conditions

How Adaptive

adaptedness

• Specialized

8.0

adaptive

33 4.9

nonadaptive

• Specialized

1 8.2

maladaptive

• Specialized

2 8.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology