NOTHING adapts to its environment.
I haven't been in on the conversation, just clicked on it, so I hesitate to interject myself in the middle of what seems to be a lively discussion.
But I will anyways. :P
Cofty: What do you mean by "NOTHING adapts?" Do you mean physiologically? Behaviorally? I think we can all agree that organisms can and do adapt behaviorally to their environment, to a limit. However, I was also under the impression that Darwinian evolution provided for the possibility of physiological adaptations, albeit over an extended period of time.
My view of Darwinian evolution, though it may be an oversimplification, is survival of the fittest. I'm not an expert, by any means. But, I was under the impression that what was "fit" was surviving because of some kind of physiological change that gave one line of genetics an advantage over another in it's environment. Is that incorrect?
Perhaps I'm using the term adaptation incorrectly. Or maybe I'm using the term environment incorrectly. Would ecosystem be a more accurate word to use then environment?
