MFT draws from evolutionary psychology and proposes that our current moral predispositions are inherited mechanisms which would have been beneficial to our ancestors during our period of evolutionary
adaptedness (Graham et al., 2011, 2013).
In a 2018 report on small-scale seed producers in Africa, GRAIN--an international non-profit organization that works with small farmers--noted that "seeds have been turned into a global commodity in the service of industrial farming and huge corporations, with short shrift given to local
adaptedness to the specific methods, ecosystems, and needs of family farms." But according to their research, farmer-managed seed programs provide the majority of seed and food crops to Africa, even while national and regional seed policies seek to undermine them.
Environmental influences upon the social choices, occupational behaviours and
adaptedness of zoo chimpanzees: Relevance to occupational therapy.
Given the expected environmental changes associated with changing climate, it will be necessary to predict the future climate conditions of a site to assess the potential of a seed source for
adaptedness to that location.
Genetic changes associated with the evolution of
adaptedness in cultivated plants and their wild progenitors.
Biology in the last halfcentury has not been particularly comfortable with the word "struggle" which has largely disappeared from biology texts, being replaced by the notions of "
adaptedness" and "fittedness." Still, plenty of "struggle" remains in biology (although the switch in emphasis is revealing), and when philosophical participants find that they themselves have ascended via this struggle, they are confronted with the question whether such a struggle can be meaningful.
The
adaptedness of the floral phenotype in a relict endemic, hawkmoth-pollinated violet.
This behavior does not need to be learned because it has been naturally selected in our ancestors' environment of evolutionary
adaptedness. Unlike in conventional clinical formulations, for example, the potential to behave in such ways is therefore not confined to a deviant subset of individuals.
Materialism has negative impacts on individuals' well-being and social
adaptedness (Kasser and Ahuvia 2002; Kasser and Ryan 1993).
"The Adaptive Legacy of Human Evolution: A Search for the Environment of Evolutionary
Adaptedness." Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 4.6 (1995): 194-203.
It interpreted said modules as the "imprint" of the characteristic of the environment--referred to by EP as the environment of evolutionary
adaptedness (EEA)--that prevailed during the time period in question.