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This is how evolution often works: An adaptation arises for one reason, and then that adaptation is employed in a similar way but for a very different purpose (it is "exapted" as Stephen Gould would say) in a later organism.
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Thus, these proteins could be exapted by natural selection for clotting.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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Front-loading is an ID hypothesis, involving evolution, which is perfectly open to the concept of structures changing functions (i.e. becoming exapted).
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Maybe you could illustrate the concept by describing the data or experiment which would conclusively rule out or confirm Brayton's "fortuitous origin of traits later to be exapted" hypothesis?
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Maybe you could illustrate the concept by describing the data or experiment which would conclusively rule out or confirm Brayton's "fortuitous origin of traits later to be exapted" hypothesis?
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His mousetrap analogy is flawed, and appeals to things in laypeople that are highly misleading (it misled you, for instance, and it is especially misleading in the implication that we should look at the issue as one of taking a part away from a complex system, or in assuming that all parts all exist for only a certain function instead of potentially being exapted).
Waldo Jaquith - Supermajority of Republicans are creationists. 2007
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Might they be exapted for a role in thermoregulation (having originally evolved for display)?
Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006
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On the basis of the Prum and Brush having to invent a word, “exapted.”
Sternberg and the "smear" of Creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Prum and Brush: feathers were “exapted” for their aerodynamic function only after the evolution of substantial developmental and structural complexity.
Sternberg and the "smear" of Creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Prum and Brush: feathers were “exapted” for their aerodynamic function only after the evolution of substantial developmental and structural complexity.
Sternberg and the "smear" of Creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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