adaptation and adaptation

There are really two quite different ways to perceive&describe adaptation.

The first is about functional wholes and how they relate to the environment.
For example flying.

The second is about particular solutions to adaptive problems.
There is a particular constellation of bones, muscles, nerves that constitute a wing,

In both cases it is right to say that there are genes for (flying/wing structures), as well as selection of (flying/wing structures).

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