Adaptation, Survival, Evolution

The standard Biological concept of Adaptation has implicitly been that of Adaptation To, because the primacy of that in relation to Adaptation Of  has been taken for granted.  Underlying that dogma is the deeply-entrenched acceptance of the Survival principle, from which it follows that any Adaptation Of an Environment, e. g. cultivation of land, is ultimately a means to Adaptation To it, e. g. staying alive at that location.  However, those orientations are now challenged by the fact of Human departure from its terrestrial environment, which demonstrates that the Adaptation Of the resources of that environment is not necessarily a means to the Adaptation To it.  More generally, the disambiguation of 'Adaptation' grounds that of 'Evolution', and the independence of the Evolutionist principle from the Survival principle, i. e. of increase from constancy.  Accordingly, the distinction between the two principles can be formulated as that between Adaptation Of and Adaptation To, respectively.