The phrase "adaptation has caused" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the effects or consequences of adaptation in various contexts, such as biology, culture, or technology.
Example: "The rapid changes in climate indicate that adaptation has caused significant shifts in species behavior and distribution."
Alternatives: "adaptation has led to" or "adaptation has resulted in".
The most parsimonious explanation for the observed genetic partitioning across habitats is that adaptation to the local environment has caused ecological divergence of distinct genetic groups within S. hystrix.
The salinity gradient from the inner Baltic to the North Sea spans an order of magnitude (3 30 psu), and has caused strong local adaptation in most of the marine lineages that survived the marine/brackish transition 4 kya [ 25].
The relatively late engagement with the Western World has caused accelerated changes, transforming the societies though adaptation of Western technology and style.
A budget soaring toward $160 million has caused Universal Pictures to put the brakes on "Bioshock," a live-action adaptation of the Take-Two Interactive video game, Variety reported.
Studies finding morphological differences between populations in different habitats typically infer that divergent selection has caused local adaptation and this inference is particularly robust when the differences are parallel (or convergent) across multiple independent population pairs (Schluter 2000; Langerhans and DeWitt 2004).
He speculated that these adaptations may have caused the contemporary devil's peculiar gait.
Domain adaptation has been introduced to solve the accuracy-dropping problem caused by distribution shift phenomenon between domains.
To see whether changing environments in the past may have caused adaptation or maladaption to our current life style, we examined whether these loci showed a signature of recent selection, using genome-wide SNP data from the HapMap populations and a genome-wide SNP dataset of 846 Dutch bloodbank controls.
