Adaptive Quotes

46 quotes by 46 authors

Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another,… — Lev S. Vygotsky
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the… — Ernst Haeckel
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 or… — Julian Huxley
Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options and centralised political… — Douglass North
Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that… — Bob Ney
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. — Johan Huizinga
The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television. — Dick Morris
Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man — Konrad Lorenz
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not… — George Gaylord Simpson
And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the history… — Niles Eldredge
A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the impacts and effectiveness… — Jerry Sabloff
United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization. — Adam Hartung
At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of… — Jesse James Garrett
Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition. — Ronald A. Heifetz
Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its approach. Itâ€™s a… — Jessa Gamble
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, they… — Kenneth H. Cooper
Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion… — John Lahr
Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often… — Richard Pascale
Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select… — Ernst Mayr
Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on… — Steven Johnson

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