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acclimatizationAny of numerous gradual, long-term responses of an individual organism to changes in its environment. The responses are more or less habitual and reversible should conditions revert to an earlier state. These criteria differentiate acclimatization from homeostasis; from growth and development (which cannot be reversed); and from evolutionary adaptation (which occurs in a population over generations). Acclimatization can occur in anticipation of a change and enable organisms to survive conditions beyond their natural experience. Examples include adaptations to seasonal changes and adjustments to changes in altitude. |
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According to Jean Nouvel, the garden is meant to function as a
sanctuary, designed as a nonlinear, organic space, in order to suggest
the "riotous nature of the non-Western and animist world" and
to function as the first of several spaces of acclimatization as the
visitor starts on this journey from familiarity to otherness.
Perhaps more significantly, on occasion even voluntary arch-delators
described their own acclimatization to the way of life of converso
emigres in terms that betrayed the quotidian and utterly social
character of the experience. On
the basis of a Royal Navy entry and a baptismal certificate that states
Equiano was born in South Carolina, Carretta posits that Equiano in all
likelihood never visited Africa, challenging how we might think about
his representation of the Middle Passage and his acclimatization to New
World slavery and economics. |
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