It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to…

We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the…

— John W. Snow

The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation…

— Julian Huxley

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging,…

— Kenneth H. Cooper

Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew.…

— Huston Smith

Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen…

— Steven Johnson

It's not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those most adaptive to change. Over the past 10 years, the need for,…

— Kenneth I. Chenault

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

— Dick Morris

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief…

— Bob Ney

It's kind of mind-blowing what some of us adaptive athletes can accomplish as far as physical sports.

— Mike Schultz

Leadership is the ability to step outside the culture to start evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.

— Edgar Schein

“Iterative, adaptive approach that recognized the importance of developing prototypes or else manually walking through how the system would work in great detail, to…

— Robert D. Austin

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is…

— Steven Pinker

Having adaptive events televised in the X Games is huge. There are people out there who might want to do this but don't think…

— Mike Schultz

The realizations of anarchist ideas and practices are like sociopolitical ecosystems. Local versions resemble each other, but they are endlessly adaptive and everywhere different…

— Scott Crow

Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in the development…

— Wade Davis