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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...
- Heidmann, T. (2015). "Retroviral
envelope gene
captures and
syncytin exaptation for
placentation in marsupials".
Proceedings of the
National Academy of...
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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...
- 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):...
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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"...
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which has
occurred as an
exaptation of the
epithelial folding that is
undergone during ontogeny. This
scalloped exaptation has then
provided stress relief...
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Haselton MG,
Shackelford TK,
Bleske AL,
Wakefield JC (1998). "Adaptations,
exaptations, and spandrels". The
American Psychologist. 53 (5): 533–548. doi:10.1037/0003-066X...
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further back
still were part of the gill
arches of
early fish. The word
exaptation was
coined to
cover these common evolutionary shifts in function. The...
