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exaptation
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- Description
An evolutionary feature, such as a structure or behavior, that is adaptive, but has non-adaptive origins. While the feature evolved through the process of natural selection, it may originate non-adaptively as a by-product of other adaptive trait.
Evolution as Opportunist- Quanta Magazine
A latent capacity for evolutionary innovation through exaptation in metabolic systems - Nature
- Topics
- Evolution, Adaptation, Strategy
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