> Notably, perfectly adapted organisms do not exist in nature. Adaptation is always a compromise, because in an organism, it requires the coordination of many biological units and functions, which cannot evolve in isolation. This requires optimization rather than maximum adaptation : optimization.
> The fact is that adaptation is not the best solution that prevails but is the least bad one. Nature is not an engineer; as such, there is no such thing as a design optimized for the overall organism system, neither in us nor in other species.—Axel Lange. 2023. Extending the Evolutionary Synthesis
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