exaptation

This points to the exaptation of an original biomineralization pathway.

The term used for this process is exaptation.

The recruitment in evolution of existing structures to serve new functions is called exaptation.

Several terms have been used to describe this: preadaptation, exaptation, cooption.

Because I myself made an exaptation of which I am deeply proud.

The biosphere's advance into the adjacent possible is just exaptation over and over again.

These various spandrels came about because of a process Darwin called "pre-adaptation," which is now known as exaptation.

Since the essential requirements for cave life were probably already present prior to the settlement of these habitats, this may be described as exaptation.

This process of adapting a pre-evolved structure for a novel use is referred to as exaptation.

Instead, they argue, accidents and exaptation (the use of old features for new purposes) play an important role in the process of evolution.

In exaptation a structure originally used for one purpose is modified for a new one.

It stems from the belief that language development could result from an adaptation, an exaptation, or a by-product.

Some alternative terms that have been suggested to avoid the implication of foresight include "co-option" and "exaptation".

The word exaptation was coined to cover these shifts in function, which are surprisingly common in evolutionary history.

However, the commonly-used terms of "exaptation" and "cooption" are ambiguous in this regard.

That exaptation seems a genuine discovery.

It is important to avoid confusion of the concept of vestigiality with that of exaptation.

To use correct evolutionary terms, the mandibles and the muscles found in the mandibles are known as exaptation.

The idea had been explored by several scholars when in 1982 Gould and Vrba introduced the term "exaptation".

And the chassis is just another Darwinian preadaptation, or Gouldian exaptation.

However, in this species, the head has become so flattened that it assists in gliding from tree to tree-an exaptation.

To describe such co-opted features he coined the term exaptation with Elisabeth Vrba.

But even this tiny invention, this tiny exaptation, could not readily have been finitely prestated.

The recruitment of protein that originally evolved with one function to serve a second, unrelated function is an example of an exaptation.

In fact, the theory of evolution proffers exaptation as a well-recognized, well-documented explanation for how systems with multiple parts could have evolved through natural means."