This concept is central to ecology: the study of adaptation is the study of the evolutionary relationship between organisms and their environment. While different groups of plants and animals have ada...This concept is central to ecology: the study of adaptation is the study of the evolutionary relationship between organisms and their environment. While different groups of plants and animals have adapted to components of their environment in many different ways, more broadly, the two basic solutions for dealing with environmental variation is to conform to the environment or to regulate internal conditions despite the environment.
