In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms, particularly when a change in the environment makes new resources available, creates new challenges, or opens new environmental niches.
Hence, Adaptation is a type of Adaptive radiation.
So, the correct answer is 'Adaptive radiation'.
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