adaptation vs evolution

adaptation

noun
  • The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment. 

  • The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification. 

  • A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment. 

  • An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed. 

  • An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium. 

  • The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments. 

  • The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium. 

evolution

noun
  • The transformation of animals, plants and other living things into different forms (now understood as a change in genetic composition) by the accumulation of changes over successive generations. 

  • The extraction of a root from a given power. 

  • Development; the act or result of developing what was implicit in an idea, argument etc. 

  • A manoeuvre of troops or ships. 

  • A process of gradual change in a given system, subject, product etc., especially from simpler to more complex forms. 

  • A turning movement, especially of the body. 

  • The opening out of a curve; now more generally, the gradual transformation of a curve by a change of the conditions generating it. 

  • The act or an instance of giving off gas; emission. 

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