Exaptation and the related term co-option describe a shift in the function of a trait during evolution. For example, a trait can evolve because it served...

Architectural exaptation is a concept in architecture and urban design that involves repurposing buildings, structures, or architectural elements for new...

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...

term "exaptation" for characteristics that enhance fitness in their present role but were not built for that role by natural selection. Exaptations may...

developing the turnover-pulse hypothesis, as well as coining the word exaptation with colleague Stephen Jay Gould. Her specific interest is in the Family...

Heidmann, T. (2015). "Retroviral envelope gene captures and syncytin exaptation for placentation in marsupials". Proceedings of the National Academy of...

which has occurred as an exaptation of the epithelial folding that is undergone during ontogeny. This scalloped exaptation has then provided stress relief...

vestigiality with that of exaptation. Both may occur together in the same example, depending on the relevant point of view. In exaptation, a structure originally...

However, many traits that appear to be simple adaptations are in fact exaptations: structures originally adapted for one function, but which coincidentally...

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...

Specifically, calcium-based minerals were stored in cartilage and bone was an exaptation development from this calcified cartilage. However, other possibilities...

Therefore, they provide a number of examples of possible evolutionary exaptation. For example, the gill-slits of lancelets are used for feeding only, and...

belief that language development could result from an adaptation, an exaptation, or a by-product. Genetics also influence the study of the evolution of...

Retrieved 15 April 2011. Gould, Stephen J.; Vrba, Elizabeth S. (1982). "Exaptation – a missing term in the science of form". Paleobiology. 8 (1): 4–15. Bibcode:1982Pbio...

deliberately "un-useful" inventions, created as a hobby and entertainment. Exaptation – a shift in the function of a trait during evolution Rube Goldberg machine...

improvements in one can be adapted to the other. This makes it an example of exaptation. There are 9 valid species, 8 in the genus Toxotes: Protoxotes lorentzi...

panda later evolved to consume a bamboo diet, the enlarged bone underwent exaptation to assist in grasping bamboo. The giant panda, however, evolved the enlarged...

Marcus W.; Ehrlich, Paul R. (2009). "Sociocultural Epistasis and Cultural Exaptation in Footbinding, Marriage Form, and Religious Practices in Early 20th-Century...

prior existence of suitable structures has been called pre-adaptation or exaptation. Kirk, John Thomas Osmond (2007). Science & Certainty. Csiro Publishing...

exception of orangutans), human anatomy suggests that brachiation may be an exaptation to bipedalism, and healthy modern humans are still capable of brachiating...

taxonomy – evolutionary tree – evolvability – experimental evolution – exaptation – extinction Joe Felsenstein – R.A. Fisher – Fisher's reproductive value...

"Extreme environments as potential drivers of convergent evolution by exaptation: the Atacama Desert Coastal Range case". Front Microbiol. 3: 426. doi:10...

transferred genes aren't even targeted back to the chloroplast. Many became exaptations, taking on new functions like participating in cell division, protein...

Quilhac, A. (2019). "The crocodylian skull and osteoderms: A functional exaptation to ectothermy?" (PDF). Zoology. 132: 31–40. doi:10.1016/j.zool.2018.12...

Heberling, J. Mason; Isaac, Bonnie L. (2017). "Herbarium specimens as exaptations: New uses for old collections". American Journal of Botany. 104 (7):...

behavior in a person still has some scientific support. Atavistic regression Exaptation Spandrel (biology) Torna atrás Uthman, Ed (2014). "Tubal pregnancy with...

natural selection. To describe such co-opted features, he coined the term exaptation with paleontologist Elisabeth Vrba. Gould believed this feature of human...

Retrieved 2023-06-10. Yosef, Reuven; Whitman, Douglas W. (1992). "Predator exaptations and defensive adaptations in evolutionary balance: No defence is perfect"...

mental adaptations. Stephen Jay Gould, for example, saw religion as an exaptation or a spandrel, in other words: religion evolved as byproduct of psychological...

(cardenolides). The black-backed oriole is able to eat the monarch through an exaptation of its feeding behavior that gives it the ability to identify cardenolides...