adapted

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After five million years of contending with larger carnivores, “they’re preadapted to move through difficult landscapes,” Dr. Creel said.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2022

The paper says, among other things, that coronaviruses harbored in various mammalian species “may essentially be preadapted to human infectivity.”

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2020

I was preadapted to be impressed by attachment theory.

From Scientific American • Mar. 16, 2012

They are "preadapted to the urban environment," he said, with such survival mechanisms as tap roots, low nutrient needs and an ability to sprout from severed roots.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2010

"A gibbon," he said only half-jokingly, "is better preadapted than a man for life in a low gravitational field."

From Time Magazine Archive