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Adaptation for, exaptation as

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2003

Nicholas S. Thompson
Nicholas S. Thompson
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychology and Biology, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610 [email protected]
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Abstract

The expression exapted as is offered as a substitute for the target article's exaptation for and exaptation to on the grounds that exapted as is less likely to foster the pernicious intuition that natural selection designs for future consequences.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , August 2002 , pp. 531 - 532
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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