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- these specific metabolic systems is due to multiple exaptations. Taking this perspective, exaptations are important in the origination of adaptations in...
- Architectural exaptation is a concept in architecture and urban design that involves repurposing buildings, structures, or architectural elements for new...
- Retrieved 2023-06-10. Yosef, Reuven; Whitman, Douglas W. (1992). "Predator exaptations and defensive adaptations in evolutionary balance: No defence is perfect"...
- Heberling, J. Mason; Isaac, Bonnie L. (2017). "Herbarium specimens as exaptations: New uses for old collections". American Journal of Botany. 104 (7):...
- However, many traits that appear to be simple adaptations are in fact exaptations: structures originally adapted for one function, but which coincidentally...
- Retrieved 15 April 2011. Gould, Stephen J.; Vrba, Elizabeth S. (1982). "Exaptation – a missing term in the science of form". Paleobiology. 8 (1): 4–15. Bibcode:1982Pbio...
- Heidmann, T. (2015). "Retroviral envelope gene captures and syncytin exaptation for placentation in marsupials". Proceedings of the National Academy of...
- term "exaptation" for characteristics that enhance fitness in their present role but were not built for that role by natural selection. Exaptations may...
- this meant that his ****ertion that apparent adaptations were actually exaptations was itself nothing more than a just-so story. How the Snake Lost Its...
- Marcus W.; Ehrlich, Paul R. (2009). "Sociocultural Epistasis and Cultural Exaptation in Footbinding, Marriage Form, and Religious Practices in Early 20th-Century...