But that is where the Tasmanian devil cancer has acquired an absolutely amazing evolutionary adaptation.

Adaptation.

It's a marvelous adaptation.

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Is this a good evolutionary adaptation, or is it going to lead us to being the shortest lived hominid species on planet Earth?

Another adaptation would be this piece.

However, none of them lead to adaptation.

It's a very clever adaptation of religions.

Here we are going to take an evolutionary argument, an evolutionary approach.

This film is an adaptation of a novel.

The point being that they've developed cultural adaptation.

Yeah. I think it's evolutionary.

So, again, transformation, adaptation, is our greatest human skill.

And all of this because of cumulative cultural adaptation.

We call it Evolutionary Program Repair.

KSirtet is an adaptation of the well known Tetris game

I can't be certain if the staircase is an adaptation rather than a bug, but if it is an adaptation, then the implications are profound.

And that gave them an evolutionary advantage.

So in evolutionary scales, movements get better.

So now you have an evolutionary excuse.

This game was an adaptation of the excellent war movie Plato.

If it is an adaptation, then we evolved to be religious.

What are the general trends in evolutionary life?

It's an inherent nature of an evolutionary process.

Okay, is this a model for creation, this adaptation that we do?

Well, you know, the people who are most skeptical about leaping to evolutionary explanations for everything are the evolutionary psychologists themselves.

It might be the evolutionary origin of the phrase,

There's a basic, profound acceleration of this evolutionary process.

Because evolution works, we actually have some evolutionary tools.

Lying has evolutionary value to us as a species.

We've developed this ability because it makes evolutionary sense.

Is the staircase a feature of our evolutionary design?

The adaptation by a popular writer has breathed new life into this classic.

Delivering the power and the bandwidth into the ocean will dramatically accelerate adaptation.

This adaptation by a popular writer has given a new life to this classic.

And this course is an adaptation of a course which I teach at Princeton

So, by being at the cusp of our evolutionary history,

It's really not a very friendly field for evolutionary biologists.

We're sort of circumventing evolutionary programs that guide our behavior.

And we're learning from neural nets, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computing.

And this is an example of a successful evolutionary run.

Because the evolutionary effects really dominate over any cosmological effect.

What looks like pathology to us may actually be a useful adaptation in some circumstances.

Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species?

It is really our greatest one of our greatest evolutionary sequences.