Iguana guts can adapt to being veggie

Can Shellfish Adapt to Ocean Acidification?

In the Pacific Northwest, oyster aficionados have likely tasted Chris Langdon’s scientific handiwork. Since 1996, his Molluscan Broodstock Program at Oregon State University has been breeding plump, fast-growing, and hardy oysters as stock for the $250 million West Coast oyster industry. But in the past several years, the program has taken on an additional goal: identifying oysters that are mor...

Can Population Genetics Adapt to Rapid Evolution?

Population genetics largely rests on a 'standard model' in which random genetic drift is the dominant force, selective sweeps occur infrequently, and deleterious mutations are purged from the population by purifying selection. Studies of phenotypic evolution in nature reveal a very different picture, with strong selection and rapid heritable trait changes being common. The time-rate scaling of ...

Can bacteria adapt to starvation-free environment?

Can an Organism Adapt Itself to Unforeseen Circumstances?

A model of an organism as an autonomous intelligent system has been proposed. This model was used to analyze learning of an organism in various environmental conditions. Processes of learning were divided into two types: strong and weak processes taking place in the absence and the presence of aprioristic information about an object respectively. Weak learning is synonymous to adaptation when a...

How can we adapt generation to the user's cognitive load?

As language-based interaction becomes more ubiquitous and is used by in a larger and larger variety of different situations, the challenge for NLG systems is to not only convey a certain message correctly, but also do so in a way that is appropriate to the situation and the user. From various studies, we know that humans adapt the way they formulate their utterances to their conversational part...