Researchers can identify an aspect of an organism’s physical, developmental, or psychological structure as an adaptation by following these steps: (1) demonstrate that it has many design features that are improbably well suited to solving an ancestral adaptive problem, (2) demonstrate that these phenotypic properties are unlikely to have arisen by chance alone, and (3) demonstrate that they are not better explained as the by-product of mechanisms designed to solve some alternative adaptive problem or some more inclusive class of adaptive problem.

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  Evolutionary Psychology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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• adaptation concept