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MAY I be permitted to direct attention to the use of loose terminology that occurs all too frequently even in some important scientific articles? The particular term that I refer to is that in which plants and animals are said to have adapted themselves to some particular environment, etc.
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LOWNDES, A. Misleading Uses of the Term ‘Self-Adaptation’.. Nature 120, 918 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120918a0
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