not adapted

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“This is just another indicator … we are not adapted to the climate we have, let alone the one that seems to be unfolding,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

“That leaves us with a financial system that is not adapted to fast-growing firms,” he says.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

The strain of bird flu currently circulating has not adapted to efficiently spread among people.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2025

"Humans are not adapted to be exposed to lead at the levels we have been exposed to over the past century," Reuben said.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2024

However, those tropical African crops could never be transmitted across South Africa’s Fish River, beyond which they were stopped by Mediterranean conditions to which they were not adapted.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond