Question

What's the difference between the words "adapt" or "adaptation" in evolution and in everyday speech?

Answer 1

Adaptation is the process of natural selection where a trait that increases the chances of survivability and reproductive succes in an individual organism than other individuals in a population under existing environmental conditions.

Adapt in general speech refers to making or altering something to fit for a new use or new conditions.

Adaptation is the outcome and applies to biological context in explaining the evolutionary success of certain populations while adapt is process in action with positve or negative outcome.

In general terms of speech adapt is a verb signifying its ongoing behaviour with expected outcome whereas adaptation is a noun which had already been taken place. Adaptation may also be defined in general terms as simulation or pretext taken from another work.