Adaptation

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• My topic is Adaptation, Y'know the thing where species adapt to their environment. Like how bird beaks change so they can better get their food of choice. Though apparently there is different versions of it, like anatomical adaptation (when the body changes) and how adaptation is the difference between living and nonliving things.

Like an example for anatomical adaptations (only happens in animals) would be a fish! it has fins and gills so it may survive under water while , say a dog, has paws and lungs so it may be on land. Birds and rodents also make good examples, like birds of prey have curved sharp beaks for tearing flesh while normal birds had blunted pointed beaks for their food of choice. While rodents can have different shapes ears and snouts depending on where they live.

This relates to evolution rather strongly since its essentially the main part of evolution! All evolution starts with a mutation that can be good, bad, or useless thing. If it were good mutation it would then become an adaptation. Then the adaptation would be favored and then it becomes evolution if that adaptation is favored so much the whole species has it and it becomes the norm.

Its a visible change too! you can see it in fossils! It also has different routes it could go down and make sub species!

There were also many important people researching this topic too! Like Charles Darwin and Donal T Manahan!

This topic Is very important because we (humans) go through adaptations too! much like the animals we research. Animals are always changing so we constantly keep researching it! incase we find a new animal to use to our advantage.

A way to remember this is to just think of bird beaks. I'm sure the first few mental pictures of birds will show the different beaks each bird has.