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Meanings of nonadaptive spandrels in English
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Usage of nonadaptive spandrels in English
1
The adaptationist program cannot provide a full accounting of evolutionary change if a high percentage of traits originated as nonadaptive spandrels.
2
I have, of course, and throughout this chapter, referred to such later utilization as exaptation-inthis case by the cooptation of initially nonadaptive spandrels.