The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1227 many practitioners, myself included. Yet, this same inherent historicity ...

1228 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY additional elaboration. Suffice to say that if a capacity for utilization in markedly ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1229 pterosaurs—the supposed disproof of contingency's dominant role in evolut ...

1230 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY of crafting (usually construed as God's creating) a feature for a particular utility h ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1231 utility—for he explicitly denies that an "indispensable" feature of mamma ...

1232 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY Preadaptation can only describe a potential future utility of a feature operating in ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1233 Table 11-1. A Taxonomy of Fitness. consequence of quirky functional shift ...

1234 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY all the attendant confusion between "adaptation" as a general "state term" for useful ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1235 arguments of those who found the concept intelligible, even interesting, ...

1236 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY narrow crevices beneath bark, and also constitutes an aerofoil which enables it to gli ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1237 can easily be separated, and their named distinction helps us to understa ...

1238 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY diving as directly adaptive (that is, first evolved in conjunction with, and presumabl ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1239 been that of a boundary marker, while its secondary function was loanword ...

1240 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY Exaptation has already passed through the three major stages of this sequence. In a fi ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1241 death messenger" (p. 64) follows from its primary role and allows these m ...

1242 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY from repeated copies of a transposon, replicated and amplified for quite different rea ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1243 not only play a refractive role in the lens, but they have important non- ...

1244 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY red or our bones white for any directly adaptive reason rooted in the colors themselve ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1245 provide enzymatic protection as well as visual refraction (Wistow, 1993, ...

1246 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY a thick pad of transparent tissue, and built by the squid as a derivative of muscle fr ...