Word: adapts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...floresiensis would be nothing less than a revolution in the understanding of human evolution. It's not just that a new species has been claimed to be found, itself an event of seismic proportions. Conventional anthropological wisdom holds that animals, in the absence of big predators, shrink to adapt to life on small, closed habitats like Flores, a phenomenon known as island dwarfism. Humans, however, are thought to have evolved linearly, developing bigger bodies and brains. H. floresiensis, relatively modern yet small?but not a Pygmy, according to its supporters?explodes that theory. "[It'd] go completely against the flow...
...Muslim country on earth. All this should make it America’s new best friend in our color-coded terror era, for the country stands on America’s side of the church-state divide, and is a prime example of Islam’s potential to adapt to the 21st century. A stronger relationship with Indonesia would send the most powerful message yet to the silent, global, Muslim majority that America has distinguished between Islam and Islamism, and stands in solidarity behind the former. This ought to be a small step towards the long-term goal...
...officers check IDs at tailgates and confiscate them. Over the past ten years, he says students have learned to adapt the tailgates and make them, for the most part, alcohol-free...
Adams spent many years of his life unsuccessfully attempting to adapt his chief d’oeuvre into a screenplay for probably just this reason. How do you convert a work that relies so heavily on cleverly turned phrases and that perfect tone of British sarcasm into a movie without making it either a boringly photographed set of witty talking heads or an unfunny visual representation of all of Adams’ verbose descriptions...
Hopkins will also have to adapt to the differences between Harvard and MIT. A frequent joker in his lectures, Hopkins said he often teases MIT students about Star Trek...