Adapting to novel environments is transfer flexibility.

A long-standing, open question in biology is how populations are capable of rapidly adapting to novel environments, a trait called evolvability 1

Reference:

  1. Clune, J., Mouret, J.-B., & Lipson, H. (2013). The evolutionary origins of modularity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 280(1755), 20122863. https://doi.org/10/gfzdrv ↩︎