The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1247 remain adaptive throughout: they originate for one function (presumably b ...

1248 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY present regimes of natural selection were exapted from ancestral features with nonadap ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1249 of evolutionary theory. Both arguments flow from the assumption (which I ...

1250 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY When a hemispherical dome stands on a set of four rounded arches meeting at right angl ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1251 11 - 8. Four spandrels with brilliant mosaics of the evangelists under a ...

1252 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY In any case, although spandrels must originate as necessary side-consequences of an ar ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1253 for the residency of these designs. Again, I chose this architectural ana ...

1254 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY the spandrels to the mosaics of the dome proves that secondary features can exert perv ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1255 high percentage of cases, probably a firm majority. If direct knowledge o ...

1256 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY I chose the San Marco spandrels because, in this case, we have firm evidence in both c ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1257 Suboptimal or ill-fitting designs as evidence of historical sequencing. ...

1258 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY four evangelists at the eastern end (where the sun rises upon novelty), contrasted wit ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1259 of this chapter, but I raise three points here to set a framework of plau ...

1260 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY did snails initially evolve their spiral coiling as part of an actively selected desig ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1261 the forms) to more complex developmental architectures that record the co ...

1262 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY be confident that no future researcher of such high status and such empirical expertis ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1263 This argument about the nonadaptive nature of the clitoral site (as advan ...

1264 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY exceed, or even to overwhelm, primary adaptations. The chief example in biology may be ...

Structural Constraints, Spandrels, and Exaptation 1265 an almost caricatured version of adaptationism as the only ground of evol ...

1266 THE STRUCTURE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY we so often construct invalid dichotomous taxonomies in our real world of complex cont ...