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adaptation
- A peculiarity of structure, physiology, or behavior, which promotes the ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in a given environment.
- The development of such characteristics by a species over time.
In the most general sense, adaptation is a feedback process in which external changes in an environment are mirrored by compensatory internal changes in an adaptive system. The actions of the adaptive unit can affect the environment, which, in turn, feeds information back to the adaptive system. Adaptation is evident in the evolution of both natural and artificial life systems, genetic algorithms, and social systems.
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