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ADAPT
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(language)ADAPT - A subset of APT.

[Sammet 1969, p. 606].


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Tooby and Cosmides add, however, that the psychological adaptations underpinning our enjoyment of fiction may not detect what experiences are actually adaptively organizing in the evolutionarily novel environments in which we live today, only what experiences manifest cues that would have made them adaptively organizing in the circumstances and conditions prevailing throughout the vast majority of human evolutionary history (in the human environment of evolutionary adaptedness or EEA).
This type of developmental trend may be depicting the adaptedness of the organism to changing environmental and intrinsic challenges.
 
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