EP UNDERSTANDING OF ADAPTION adaptations, the functional components of organisms, are identified[.] by[.. evidence of their design: the exquisite match between organism structure and environment(Hagen 2005, 148) Reverse engineering is a process of figuring out the design of a mechanism on the basis of an analysis of the tasks it performs Evolutionary functional analysis is a form of reverse engineering in that it attempts to reconstruct the mind's design from an analysis of the problems the mind must have evolved to solve(Buller 2005,92)EP’ UNDERSTANDING OF ADAPTION • “adaptations, the functional components of organisms, are identified […] by […] evidence of their design: the exquisite match between organism structure and environment” (Hagen 2005, 148). • “Reverse engineering is a process of figuring out the design of a mechanism on the basis of an analysis of the tasks it performs. Evolutionary functional analysis is a form of reverse engineering in that it attempts to reconstruct the mind's design from an analysis of the problems the mind must have evolved to solve” (Buller 2005, 92)