behavior that enables a person (usually used in the context of children) to cope in their environment with greatest success and least conflict with others.

Automatic adjustment to changing conditions.

The adaptive response is a DNA damage response pathway prevalent across bacteria that protects DNA from damage by external agents or by errors during replication.

Rapid diversification from common ancestor.

The adaptive value represents the combined influence of all characters which affect the fitness of an individual or population.

The expression adaptive strategies is used by anthropologist Yehudi Cohen to describe a society's system of economic production.

Responsive strategy for managing change.

System adjusts to changing conditions.

Correcting distortions in real-time.

Adaptive capacity relates to the capacity of systems, institutions, humans and other organisms to adjust to potential damage, to take advantage of opportunities, or to respond to consequences.