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definition of adaptation?
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An adaptation is a characteristic that enhances the survival or reproduction of organisms that bear it, relative to alternative character states (especially the ancestral condition in the population in which the adaptation evolved). Natural selection is the only mechanism known to cause the evolution of adaptations, so many biologists would simply define an adaptation as a char- acteristic that has evolved by natural selection. The word “adaptation” also refers to the process whereby the members of a population become better suited to some feature of their environment through change in a characteristic that affects their survival or reproduction. These definitions, however, do not fully incorporate the complex issue of just how adaptations (or the process of adaptation) should be defined or measured.
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