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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...
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Architectural exaptation is a
concept in
architecture and
urban design that
involves repurposing buildings, structures, or
architectural elements for new...
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evolutionary adaptations. As
noted in the
table below,
traits may also be
exaptations,
byproducts of
adaptations (sometimes
called "spandrels"), or random...
- term "
exaptation" for
characteristics that
enhance fitness in
their present role but were not
built for that role by
natural selection.
Exaptations may...
- However, many
traits that
appear to be
simple adaptations are in fact
exaptations:
structures originally adapted for one function, but
which coincidentally...
- Heberling, J. Mason; Isaac,
Bonnie L. (2017). "Herbarium
specimens as
exaptations: New uses for old collections".
American Journal of Botany. 104 (7):...
- 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...
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Retrieved 2023-06-10. Yosef, Reuven; Whitman,
Douglas W. (1992). "Predator
exaptations and
defensive adaptations in
evolutionary balance: No
defence is perfect"...
- Heidmann, T. (2015). "Retroviral
envelope gene
captures and
syncytin exaptation for
placentation in marsupials".
Proceedings of the
National Academy of...
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Stephen J.; Vrba,
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