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comparative more adaptive, superlative most adaptive
Of, pertaining to, characterized by or showing adaptation; making or made fit or suitable. quotations examples
The real affinities of all organic beings, in contradistinction to their adaptive resemblances, are due to inheritance or community of descent.
1859, Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
That variation of germinal origin is a fact in organic nature is admitted on all hands, and that some variations are adaptive is also unquestioned.
1896, C. Lloyd Morgan, On Modification and Variation
Capable of being adapted or of adapting; susceptible of or undergoing accordant change. examples
(psychology) Of a trait: that helps an individual to function well in society.