the membrane [of the urethra] has the power of self adaptation in a very extraordinary manner to the emission of urine and of semen, that in the one operation it is enlarged, in the other straitened
- secondary
- secondary sexual characters
- secretion
- sedentary bird
- segregation distortion
- selection
- selection pressure
- selective value
- selecton
- self
- self-adaptation
- self-alteration
- self-concept
- self-construction
- self-creation
- self-decomposition
- self-development
- self-differentiation
- self-expression
- self-feeling
- self-formation
Result of Your Query
self-adaptationauto-adaptation (fr.); Selbstadapation (ger.)
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The adaptation of a system to its own working order.
- 1808
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Andrews, M.W. (1808). Observations on the Application of Lunar Caustic to Stricture in the Urethra and OEsophagus. London Medical Review 1, 77-89: 78.
- 1834
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[God] gives even to the plants and trees of the earth the power of self-adaptation to a change of soil or climate
Anonymus (1834). The Heart Delineated in its State by Nature and as Renewed by Grace: 282
- 1837
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System der Selbstanpassung [zur geografischen Verteilung von Individuen einer Art]
Blyth, E. (1837). Ueber die psychologischen Unterschiede zwischen dem Menschen und allen übrigen Geschöpfen, und die sich darauf gründende Verschiedenheit des Einflusses, den der Mensch auf die niedrigern Thiere ausübt, so wie von demjenigen, den Letztere auf einander ausüben (Fortsetzung). Neue Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde 2, 193-201: 200.
- 1839
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[man’s] power of self adaptation
Carpenter, W.B. (1839). Principles of General and Comparative Physiology: 423.
- 1851
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universal selfadaptation [of man as an »inhabitant of all climates«]
Kennedy, J. (1851). The Natural History of Man; or, Popular Chapters on Ethnography, vol. 1: 12.
- 1855
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the Lamarkean hypothesis of the self-adaptation of organic forms to conditions of inorganic nature
Walker, J.B. (1855). God Revealed in the Process of Creation and by the Manifestation of Jesus Christ: 77.
- 1869
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I believe that natural selection will account for much which selfadaptation will not account for
Murphy, J.J. (1869). Habit and Intelligence, 2 vols.: I, 313.
- 1876
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The various organs have a power of self-adaptationHarrison, F. (1876). Humanity: a dialogue. Contemporary Review 27, 862-885: 878.
- 1877
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the self-adaptation of the nervous organism
Sully, J. (1877). [Rez. Allen’s Physiological Æsthetics]. Mind 2, 387-392: 390.
- 1890
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Tendenz des Herzens zur Selbstanpassung
Litten, M. (1890). Krankheiten des Circulationsapparates. Jahresbericht über die Leistungen und Fortschritte in der gesammten Medicin 24(2), 151-235: 179.
- 1897
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[Spencer schildere] die bisherige Entwicklung der Menschheit als einen allmählichen Prozess der Selbstanpassung an ihre Lebensbedingungen
Gaupp, O. (1897). Herbert Spencer: 122.
- 1978
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Aktive Selbstanpassung
Wuketits, F.M. (1978). Wissenschaftstheoretische Probleme der modernen Biologie: 142.