[mwest]

The word "adaptation" has a few specific meanings in the field of biology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation

[gbil]

Ah that makes sense then! So in this context it is used in the same sense as evolve. Thanks that not only makes sense but lead me to search with both terms and get this

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/adaptation...

  Evolutionary adaptation, or simply adaptation...