A common example of evolutionary adaptation is that of the giraffe population eventually having longer necks, even though they have the same number of vertebrae as humans and most other mammals.
Evolution is driven by two things: random mutation and natural selection. Mutations add to the variability within a population and natural selection is like a filter that selects and propagates adaptive traits that provide some competitive advantage to individuals that have it.
To elaborate on the above example, there is naturally occurring variation within a giraffe population (as there is within any species), so that some individuals are born with slightly longer necks than others. During drought or famine, these are better able to reach higher branches on trees, gaining more food energy to survive and reproduce. In subsequent generations that inherit these traits, still others may be born with slightly longer necks than average, and thereby gain further competitive advantage for themselves and their offspring. Over the course of many generations, those with better survival traits increase in number, while those without it decline in number.
It is worth noting that, while an individual can be born with an adaptation, evolution does not apply to individuals; evolution pertains to gene pools within populations or species, and occurs over many generations.
Evolution is in fact a process of ongoing adaptation.
Adaptation
Jean Lamark was the scientist that first described evolution as a process of adaptation.
It is, in fact, evolution (shifts in the frequencies of traits in populations) that causes adaptation (when these shifts lead to increased fitness).
There are no stages to evolution. It is a continuous process of adaptation and divergence.
The relation between evolution and adaptation is that in evolution and adaptation both the body causes some physical changes
Evolution is in fact a process of ongoing adaptation.
Adaptation
Jean Lamark was the scientist that first described evolution as a process of adaptation.
It is, in fact, evolution (shifts in the frequencies of traits in populations) that causes adaptation (when these shifts lead to increased fitness).
There are no stages to evolution. It is a continuous process of adaptation and divergence.
adaptation as chronicled by Darwin
Adaptation/Evolution
"adapted" means modified or changed or adjusted to make more suitable. Example. The man adapted a lawnmower engine to use to power his go-cart.
Divergent evolution.
Adaptation and evolution all have to do with how an animal or a species depend on there environment. Adaptation is how the species adapts to there environment.Adaptation is caused by evolution by natural selection.
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