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Adaptation, Biological

Changes in biological features that help an organism cope with its environment, physiological, phenotypic and genetic

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    Organic adaptation to environment / by George Elwood Nichols, Lorande Loss Woodruff, Alexander Petrunkevitch, Wesley Roswell Coe, George Reber Wieland, Carl Owen Dunbar, Richard Swann Lull, Ellsworth Huntington; edited by Malcolm Rutherford Thorpe.

    Nichols, George Elwood, 1882- | Date: 1924
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    Nature's riddles, or, the battle of the beasts / H.W. Shepheard-Walwyn.

    Shepheard-Walwyn, H. W. (Hugh Wallwyn), 1874- | Date: 1903
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    Man-an adaptive mechanism / by George W. Crile ... edited by Annette Austin, A.B.

    Crile, George Washington, 1864-1943. | Date: 1916
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    Introduction to anthropology / Roger Pearson.

    Pearson, Roger, 1927-2023 | Date: [1974], ©1974
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    Adaptation in pathological processes / by William H. Welch.

    Welch, William Henry, 1850-1934. | Date: 1937

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Biological Evolution
Adaptation, Physiological
Genetics
Environment
Human evolution

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