adaptednesses
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Noun edit
adaptednesses
- plural of adaptedness
- 1992, "Interactions: The Biological Context of Social Systems", Niles Eldredge, Marjorie Glicksman Grene, Marjorie Grene, p. 46
- The theory of natural selections holds, after all, only for adaptations, states of being adapted, adaptednesses; and these are means-end relations.
- 1876, "Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay", Samuel Austin Allibone, p. 252
- He creates those sympathies and suitablenesses of nature that are the foundation of all true friendship, and by his providence brings persons so affected …
- 1915, "Emma Darwin, a Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896", Henrietta Emma Darwin Litchfield, p. 239
- We must travel voiturier, which among many conveniences and suitablenesses has its plagues for an impatient spirit.
- 1992, "Interactions: The Biological Context of Social Systems", Niles Eldredge, Marjorie Glicksman Grene, Marjorie Grene, p. 46