Borrow

Change Without Announcing It

Convert

Create Breadth Over Time

Create Divergence

Gather Around Failure

Quietly Forgive

Quietly Shape Everything

Reward Flexibility

Reward Forgetting

Reward Improvisation

adaptation

cigarette

pigeon

nest

trivia

insecticide

defense mechanism

camouflage

flounder

ninja

is a process which is reversed today... namely, animals have progressively undertaken the task of adapting the environment to themselves, modifying it (by building homes, damming rivers).

In fact the upward trend has been accompanied by a growth of the converse relation. Animals have progressively undertaken the task of adapting the environment to themselves. They have built nests, and social dwelling-places of great complexity... beavers have cut down trees and dammed rivers... insects have elaborated a high community life with a variety of reactions upon the environment. (whitehead 'function of reason' pdf) . In so acting, they are transforming the environment for their own purposes. Some animals dig for their food, others stalk their prey. Of course all these operations are meant by the common doctrine of adaptation to the environment. But they are very inadequately expressed by that statement... and the real facts easily drop out of sight under cover of that statement. The higher forms of life are actively engaged in modifying their environment. In the case of mankind this active attack on the environment is the most prominent fact in his existence. (whitehead 'function of reason' pdf)

is a reverse trend of what it used to be such that animals have progressively undertaken the task of adapting the environment to themselves.

In fact the upward trend has been accompanied by a growth of the converse relation. Animals have progressively undertaken the task of adapting the environment to themselves. They have built nests, and social dwelling-places of great complexity... beavers have cut down trees and dammed rivers... insects have elaborated a high community life with a variety of reactions upon the environment. (whitehead 'function of reason' pdf)

is a verb that was unfortunately only used in the passive, meaning that it concerned only whether an organism was or was not adapted to it environment... the organism itself did not adapt.

a verb only used in the passive: An organism either was or was not adapted to its environment... the organism itself did not adapt' (John Tresh 'heredity is an open system. . . Anthropology Today 1998).

is nothing other than death when it has achieved its perfect form. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

is an inherent characteristic of man. He adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst. Jose Ortega y Gasset

is inherent in man. He is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything! Fyodor Dostoevsky

is a necessary faculty of that scoundrel, man. He can grow used to everything.

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel! Fyodor Dostoevsky

is inherent in man. There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way. Leo Tolstoy

adaptation, n.All

adaptation