Murray Gell-Mann

What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars.

American Physicist

Mike Schultz

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 they can. They can see us out here tearing it up. That's going to help people realize that if you want something bad enough, you can get there.

American Athlete

Neeti Mohan

I think travelling teaches you that there is a change which is constant and you have to develop an adaptive nature to be part of this celebration and to be a part of this journey called life. It gives a great understanding of people and their culture.

Indian Musician

Yo-Yo Ma

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

American Musician

Margo Georgiadis

Generation Alpha has very different expectations for the entire world. Everything that's going to happen in their lives needs to be visual, on demand, adaptive, in demand, and we have to find a way to embed that into our toy experiences.

American Businesswoman

Travis Scott

I like how fashion is becoming more like music. It's more adaptive to young kids. It's more adaptive to a more on-the-go lifestyle. More street vibe. But I've always been into it.

American Rapper

Tim Jackson

Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential to lay down the stability to raise families and form cohesive social groups.

British Economist

David Perlmutter

Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

American Scientist

Robin Marantz Henig

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

Writer

Lars Rasmussen

Everyone loves to run with music in their ears, but when the music becomes adaptive, the music plays a more important role in the experience.

The word 'adaptive' describes how something can adjust to suit different conditions or purposes.

Context Dependency

'Adaptive' often implies that the change is positive and beneficial in technology and innovation.

Positive Connotation

In the context of evolution and biology, 'adaptive' refers to traits that enhance survival or reproduction.

Evolutionary Advantage

'Adaptive' can mean developing coping strategies to handle various life situations effectively.

Coping Mechanism

'Adaptive' highlights skills necessary to adjust and succeed in different environments, especially in the wild.

Survival Skill

In learning contexts, being 'adaptive' suggests an ability to learn from experience and change accordingly.

Learning Ability

'Adaptive' is used for tools or practices specifically designed to help those with disabilities.

Disability Support

The term implies a focus on access or usability for people with a range of abilities.

Accessibility Focus

 I'm quite interested in this finding because it might give us quite unexpected leads. now in how we could possibly treat patients that have these failing, adaptive, as we call it, or slow part of the immune system, because these angler fish must have done something to the rapid responder system,

Deep Sea Anglerfish Sex...

 Isn't it part of your personality?" To which I would say, mood is adaptive. Being able to have sadness and fear and joy and pleasure and all of the other moods that we have, that's incredibly valuable. And major depression is something that happens when that system gets broken. It's maladaptive.

Depression, the secret...

 and increasingly lighter pheomelanin-rich skin shades fanning outwards as the sunshine dwindles. Therefore, skin color is little more than an adaptive trait for living on a rock that orbits the Sun. It may absorb light, but it certainly does not reflect character.

The science of skin...

 Some squid species have also developed unique adaptive behaviors. The deep-sea vampire squid, when startled, uses its webbed arms to make a cape it hides behind. The tiny bobtail, on the other hand, tosses sand over its body as it burrows away from prying eyes.

How squids outsmart...

 So I'd like to propose that we can combine those two worlds, that we can combine the world of the nanoscale programmable adaptive materials and the built environment. And I don't mean automated machines. I don't just mean smart machines that replace humans.

The emergence of "4D...

 but its effects here are some of the least understood. Recent studies show differences in brain scans after pregnancy and early parenting, and suggest that these changes are adaptive. That means they could help with parenting skills,

The surprising effects...

 the distance not as scary but still something to be worried about evolutionarily think about the hyper vigilance that goes along with anxiety as a very adaptive trait because a long time ago the world was

How Fear and Anxiety...

 But the problem is what happens when the bear comes home every night, and this system is activated over and over and over again, and it goes from being adaptive, or life-saving,

How childhood trauma...

 price for me what had been adaptive as a child became maladaptive as an adult so trusting was very difficult I was always needing verification I

How to deal with...

 which made me the highest ranked adaptive female snowboarder in the world. Eleven years ago, when I lost my legs,