# adaptation (biological)

When a thing changes to be different and yet persists through time in a place.

- Computed level: L3 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: biology

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [change](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-change.process), [persist](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-persist.continue), [difference](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-difference.relation), [pattern](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-pattern.regularity)

**Through:** A thing changes over time and keeps being, but its pattern becomes different from before in a regular way.

**Novel properties:**
- fit to environment
- new stability

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-adaptation.biological*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-adaptation.biological.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*