![]() ![]() And since one sign of human adaptability is the ability to change one’s environment, Zelas sets out to change her surroundings for maximum evolutionary benefit, stopping short of nothing to get her way. ![]() She’s virtually impervious to poisons or wounds, being so adaptable that she can heal herself immediately. Her appearance changes, chameleon-like, depending on whether it’s day or night, whether she’s indoors or out it changes, even, depending on whom she’s talking to, for Zelas aims to please. The skinny woman from the streets becomes the glamorous title character, the “adaptive ultimate,” the most adaptable human being who ever lived. ![]() Injected with Scott’s adaptability serum, Zelas is cured. Bach finds Scott a charity case, a woman named Kyra Zelas, who is mere hours from dying of tuberculosis. Itching to try it on a human subject, he pleads his case to the esteemed surgeon Dr. ![]() A young biochemist, Dan Scott, researching fruit-fly adaptability, believes he has discovered a sort of cure-all serum. Weinbaum, was first published in the November 1935 issue of Astounding Stories. “The Adaptive Ultimate,” a short story by Stanley G. ![]()
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