Everything about Adaptation
Evolutionary process
In biology, adaptation has three related meanings. Firstly, it is the dynamic evolutionary process of natural selection that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness. Secondly, it is a state reached by the population during that process. Thirdly, it is a phenotypic trait or adaptive trait, with a functional role in each individual organism, that is maintained and has evolved through natural selection. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: AdaptationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A review of the global climate change impacts, adaptation, and sustainable mitigation measuresInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: DraculaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Guidelines for the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Self-Report MeasuresCited 11,745 times
- Go sideways: Modern synthesis (20th century)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Genetics and the Origin of SpeciesA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
Noun A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
Noun The process of replacing a given morpheme of a source lexeme with an equivalent morpheme of the target lexeme, especially where the two morphemes are cognates.
Noun The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Guidelines for the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Self-Report Measures
Ideal spatial adaptation by wavelet shrinkage
A PHOTOMETRIC ADAPTATION OF THE SOMOGYI METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF GLUCOSE
Principles of Good Practice for the Translation and Cultural Adaptation Process for Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) Measures: Report of the ISPOR Task Force for Translation and Cultural Adaptation
Cross-cultural adaptation of health-related quality of life measures: Literature review and proposed guidelines
Physiology and Neurobiology of Stress and Adaptation: Central Role of the Brain
Stress, Adaptation, and Disease: Allostasis and Allostatic Load
Domain Adaptation via Transfer Component Analysis
🆕 Influential since 2022
A review of the global climate change impacts, adaptation, and sustainable mitigation measures
Domain Adaptation for Medical Image Analysis: A Survey
Electric Vehicles: Benefits, Challenges, and Potential Solutions for Widespread Adaptation
Staphylococcus aureus host interactions and adaptation
Bioinspired in-sensor visual adaptation for accurate perception
📚 Books worth reading
DraculaBram Stoker · 1897
Twelfth Night, or What You WillWilliam Shakespeare · 1734
FlatlandEdwin Abbott Abbott · 1884
Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb · 1800
Mother Goose in ProseL. Frank Baum · 1897
Beautiful Stories from ShakespeareEdith Nesbit, William Shakespeare · 1907
Revolting rhymesRoald Dahl · 1982
The Adventures of Odysseus And Tales of TroyPadraic Colum, Willy Pogány · 1918
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- Speciation Speciation is the evolutionary process by which populations evolve to become distinct species. The biologist Orator F. Cook coined the term in 1906 for…
- Natural selection Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in the relative fitness endowed on them by their own…
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- History of speciation The scientific study of speciation — how species evolve to become new species — began around the time of Charles Darwin in the middle of the 19th century…
- Adaptationism Adaptationism is a scientific perspective on evolution that focuses on accounting for the products of evolution as collections of adaptive traits, each…