Exaptation—a Missing Term in the Science of Form
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Summary
This work presents several examples of exaptation, indicating where a failure to conceptualize such an idea limited the range of hypotheses previously available, and proposes a terminological solution to the problem of preadaptation.
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- article
- Published
- 1982-01-01
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- 4,315
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Keywords
Exaptation, Natural selection, Selection (genetic algorithm), Adaptation (eye), Confusion
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