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ARTICLE · 13 SEPTEMBER 2016

Adaptation And Intelligence

If a population cannot move or change sufficiently to preserve its long-term viability, then obviously, it will become extinct, at least in that locale.

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Harmony, in other words. One dictionary definition of "adaptation” is "a trait which allows the organisms that have this trait and have succeeded through natural selection to be more evolutionarily adaptive.1A magic word for a living thing to sustain its existence. The explanation continues as follows: "Adaptation is the evolutionary process whereby a population becomes better suited to its habitat. If a population cannot move or change sufficiently to preserve its long-term viability, then obviously, it will become extinct, at least in that locale.

According to Jean Piaget (1896-1980), a Swiss Biologist and Professor of Child Psychology, intelligence is a form of adaptation, wherein knowledge is constructed by each individual through the two complementary processes of assimilation and accommodation.2Piaget emphasises the dialectic relationship between assimilation and accommodation while defining adaptation as the incorporation of the awareness relating to

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