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Adaptation

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Adaptation is a trait that fits an organism to its environment, produced over generations by natural selection.

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A heat-tolerant microbe living in a hot spring and a moth with a tongue matched to one flower's depth are both adaptations.

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An adaptation fits a past and present environment; it carries no guarantee of fitting a future one.