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Troubles with exaptationism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Derek Browne
Derek Browne
Affiliation:
Philosophy Department, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealandderek.browne@canterbury.ac.nz www.phil.canterbury.ac.nz/derek_browne/
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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.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , August 2002 , pp. 510 - 511
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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