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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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occipitotemporal sulcus. A
relevant theory to this
hypothesis is the
concept of
exaptations from
evolutionary theory,
which states that
several evolved characteristics...
- term "
exaptation" for
characteristics that
enhance fitness in
their present role but were not
built for that role by
natural selection.
Exaptations may...
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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...
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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...
- An
endogenous viral element (EVE) is a DNA
sequence derived from a virus, and
present within the
germline of a non-viral organism. EVEs may be
entire viral...
-
which has
occurred as an
exaptation of the
epithelial folding that is
undergone during ontogeny. This
scalloped exaptation has then
provided stress relief...
- 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...
