adaptation
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John Kani returns to ‘“Master Harold”... and the Boys’ at Geffen Playhouse, 40 years after acting in the film adaptation of Athol Fugard’s play.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
The film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's It Ends With Us was a box office hit in 2024, even if it's now more remembered for the fall-out between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
A genetic adaptation that allows animals such as yaks and Tibetan antelopes to survive in thin air may also point to a new way to repair nerve damage in humans.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
The Ukraine war involves remotely piloted systems, electronic warfare, layered air defenses and relentless adaptation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
It was a hoary restatement of Lamarck’s idea—of adaptation morphing directly into hereditary change—decades after geneticists had pointed out the conceptual errors of Lamarckism.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing adaptation
"The Origin of Species by Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin: Essential Words
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Ecology - Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems - Introductory
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