adaptive behavior

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  1. 1

    behavior that enables a person (usually used in the context of children) to cope in their environment with greatest success and least conflict with others.

  2. 2

    In behavioral ecology, adaptive behavior is any behavior that contributes directly or indirectly to an individual's reproductive success, and is thus subject to the forces of natural selection.

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