adaptation

But that enormous level of cultural impact is precisely what makes a film adaptation of “Wicked” a dicey decision.

Davis won an Oscar in 2017 for playing the long-suffering wife opposite Denzel Washington in the film adaptation of August Wilson’s “Fences.”

Certainly, there could have been a more straightforward adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s acclaimed novel about the friendship between two Black boys at a brutal Florida reform school in the early 1960s.

Habituation -- adaptation's less-glamorous sibling -- involves the lessening response to a stimulus after repeated exposure.

This suggests that local populations might have special adaptations to their specific environments, making it even more crucial to protect them all.