Troubles with exaptationism
- 1 February 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Vol. 25 (04) , 510-511
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x02270090
Abstract
There are two kinds of useful traits: adaptations, and all the others. Exaptations are just all the others. Exaptations are not for anything. Because there is such diversity in all the others, exaptation is not an explanatory concept. Its only real use is to block adaptationist excesses.Keywords
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