Adaptation occurs through evolution by natural selection. If evolution is any change in allele frequency, then adaptation is the subset of frequency changes that gives the organism greater fitness under particular circumstances.Picture this, a brand new island forms off the coast of Iceland in 1963 as the result of an undersea volcanic eruption. After only a few months, the landscape created was so varied and mature that it was almost beyond belief. This is an amazing factual description of then, brand new island of Surtsey off the coast of Iceland and all the scientists were amazed at what they saw happening there from the first days of its existence.What these men and women encountered was nothing less than miraculous from their evolutionary perspectives. There were wide sandy beaches, g