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The 21 pages that link to Adaptation, each with the reason it gives.

• Charles DarwinRelated: Adaptation is the outcome Darwin’s mechanism explains, not a goal of evolution.

• Natural selectionRelated: Repeated selection can build traits suited to recurring environmental conditions.

• Evolutionary psychologyRelated: Evolutionary psychologists treat some recurring psychological traits as adaptations to past problems.

• On the Origin of SpeciesRelated: The book treats fit between organisms and conditions as an outcome of selection.

• Functional morphologyRelated: Functional usefulness can help explain how a form became an adaptation.

• CoevolutionRelated: Coevolution involves adaptations shaped by selection arising from another species.

• LocalizationNarrower topic: Localization is a place-specific form of adaptation.

• TeleologyRelated: Calling a trait an adaptation explains it through effects that contributed to its evolutionary history.

• MorphologyRelated: Morphological differences can reflect adaptations to distinct environments or ways of life.

• DarwinismRelated: Darwinism explains how useful inherited features accumulate across generations.

• NeotenyNarrower topic: Whether neoteny is adaptive depends on how retained traits affect survival and reproduction.

• Defense mechanismRelated: Many defenses are adaptations to recurring threats.

• VestigialityCompared with: A reduced trait can still be adaptive, so vestigiality does not mean absence of function.

• AdaptationismBroader topic: It is the outcome adaptationism most often seeks to explain.

• IntelligenceRelated: Flexible adjustment to changing conditions is a central feature of intelligence.

• Tinbergen's four questionsRelated: This question examines how a behavior’s effects may have contributed to fitness.

• Human behavioral ecologyCompared with: Behavioral ecology models optimization but does not establish that every observed choice is an adaptation.

• Niche constructionCompared with: Adaptation describes organisms changing to environments, while niche construction emphasizes organisms changing environments.

• Functional psychologyNarrower topic: It is the central explanatory purpose assigned to mental processes by functional psychology.

• Function (biology)Related: Adaptations are often identified by the functions their traits perform.

• MicroevolutionRelated: Selection can increase alleles that contribute to adaptation in a population.