What is an Adaptation?

Adaptation: Any feature produced via a developmental process (natural selection in evolution) for its current function — or to do its current purpose better. Adaptive processes are the ones we use everyday to keep things functioning in normal ways — improvements towards known and understood goals/purposes.

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Definition of Adaptation

Adaptations form the “outside” and visible form of all things, while exaptations unexpectedly when things are put to new or unintended uses.

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