maladaptation
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of maladaptation
First recorded in 1875–80; mal- + adaptation
Example Sentences
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This PT maladaptation process offers an opportunity to identify noninvasive markers in blood or urine that can better and more safely predict AKI and manage treatment.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 14, 2023
CrossFit, then, “is one component of how to change the behaviors of adults, in an attempt to reverse our maladaptation to our current circumstances.”
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2023
Since the last report, there is further evidence that some adaptation can lead to unintended consequences that worsen the impacts of climate change—what’s known as maladaptation.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 28, 2022
“Our level of intelligence could be a maladaptation, a wrong turn, an aberration.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2017
That is, the response to "sharp" is a nascent or incipient form of a response which at the time of its first occurrence was the expression of a maladaptation.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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