I don't have time to talk to you. I'm as busy as a beaver. When the tourist season starts, this store is busy as Grand Central Station. Sorry I can't go to lunch with you. I'm as busy as a beaver building a new dam.
The expression adaptive strategies is used by anthropologist Yehudi Cohen to describe a societyâs system of economic production. Cohen argued that the most important reason for similarities between two (or more) unrelated societies is their possession of a similar adaptive strategy.In other words, similar economic causes have similar sociocultural effects.astoralists live in North Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. These herders are people whose activities focus on such domesticated animals such as cattle, sheep, goats, camels, yak, and reindeer.
adaptive radiation. n. 1. (Biology) evolution of a number of divergent species from a common ancestor, each species becoming adapted to occupy a different environment. This type of evolution occurred in the Tertiary manuals and the Mesozoic reptiles.oun. 1. adaptive radiation-the development of many different forms from an originally homogeneous group of organisms as they fill different ecological niches. radiation-the spread of a group of organisms into new habitats.