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Originally Posted by Kazikli Bey
I'm sorry, it never crossed my mind that it was purely a semantic issue but i was always instructed never to say adapt when talking of Darwinist Evolution.
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I can see how the word, "adapt" seems to carry a misleading connotation, and maybe I'm wrong (I haven't read his book), but didn't Darwin himself use the word, "adaptation"?
There's a wonderful book, "Song of the Dodo" by David Quammen. It is all about evolution, extinction, island biodiversity, and adaptive radiation which is the process by which a species diverges into different species by spreading out into different ecosystems. It's a big book and I haven't even half finished it but it covers this topic very thoroughly and very beautifully. It's even kind of funny and suspenseful in some parts, like when he describes the time when he was chased and nearly caught by a Komodo dragon.