Adaptation (disambiguation)
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Adaptation
is the process whereby a population becomes better suited to its habitat.
Adaptation may also refer to:
Arts
Biology and Medicine
Control and Information theory
Human sciences
Adaptation
An adaptation in biology is a trait with a current functional role in the life history of an organism that is maintained and evolved by means of natural selection. An adaptation refers to both the current state of being adapted and to the dynamic evolutionary process that leads to the adaptation....
is the process whereby a population becomes better suited to its habitat.
Adaptation may also refer to:
Arts
- Adaptation (film), a 2002 film by Spike Jonze
- Film adaptationFilm adaptationFilm adaptation is the transfer of a written work to a feature film. It is a type of derivative work.A common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis of a feature film, but film adaptation includes the use of non-fiction , autobiography, comic book, scripture, plays, and even...
, a story from another work, adapted into a film - Literary adaptationLiterary adaptationLiterary adaptation is the adapting of a literary source to another genre or medium, such as a film, a stage play, or even ace video game...
, a story from a literary source, adapted into another work - Theatrical adaptationTheatrical adaptationIn a theatrical adaptation, material from another artistic medium, such as a novel or a film is re-written according to the needs and requirements of the theatre and turned into a play or musical....
, a story from another work, adapted into a play
Biology and Medicine
- Adaptation (eye)Adaptation (eye)In ocular physiology, adaptation is the ability of the eye to adjust to various levels of darkness and light.-Efficacy:The human eye can function from very dark to very bright levels of light; its sensing capabilities reach across nine orders of magnitude. This means that the brightest and the...
, the eye's adjustment to light - Neural adaptationNeural adaptationNeural adaptation or sensory adaptation is a change over time in the responsiveness of the sensory system to a constant stimulus. It is usually experienced as a change in the stimulus. For example, if one rests one's hand on a table, one immediately feels the table's surface on one's skin. Within a...
, the responsiveness of a sensory system to a constant stimulus
Control and Information theory
- Adaptation (computer science)Adaptation (Computer Science)The term “adaptation” in computer science refers to a process, in which an interactive system adapts its behaviour to individual users based on information acquired about its user and its environment.-The need for adaptation:...
by which interactive systems adapt to individual users and environments - Adaptive systemAdaptive systemThe term adaptation arises mainly in the biological scope as a trial to study the relationship between the characteristics of living beings and their environments...
, a set of interacting entities that enable the whole to improve its response
Human sciences
- Adaptation to global warmingAdaptation to global warmingAdaptation to global warming and climate change is a response to climate change that seeks to reduce the vulnerability of natural and human systems to climate change effects. Even if emissions are stabilized relatively soon, climate change and its effects will last many years, and adaptation will...
- Behavioral adaptationAdaptive behaviorAdaptive behavior is a type of behavior that is used to adjust to another type of behavior or situation. This is often characterized by a kind of behavior that allows an individual to change an unconstructive or disruptive behavior to something more constructive. These behaviors are most often...
, an adjustment to another type of behavior or situation - Hedonic adaptation, the tendency to remain at a stable level of happiness despite changes in fortune
- Psychological adaptationPsychological adaptationA psychological adaptation, also called an Evolved psychological mechanism or EPM, is an aspect of a human or other animal's psychology that is the result of evolutionary pressures. It could serve a specific purpose, have served a purpose in the past , or be a side-effect of another EPM...
, a mental aspect that results from evolutionary pressures - Preconditioning (adaptation), a general concept in which an entity is exposed to a form of some stress or stimulus in order to prepare that entity to be more resilient against the stimulus when and if the stimulus is encountered in the future.