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Adaptive   /ədˈæptɪv/   Listen
Adaptive

adjective
1.
Having a capacity for adaptation.  Synonym: adaptative.  Antonym: maladaptive.



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... 'influence' assumed by me in 1900. In these lectures I elaborated a definite Lamarckian theory of the origin of Secondary Sexual Characters in relation to Hormones, extending the theory also to ordinary adaptive structures and characters which are not related to sex. Having met with many obstacles in endeavouring to get a paper founded on the original lectures published in England, I finally sent it to Professor Wilhelm Roux, the editor of the Archiv fuer Entwicklungsmechanik ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham



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