- On the nature of the earliest known lifeforms
2025/07/14 by Dheeraj Kanaparthi, Frances Westall, Marko Lampe +6 · 3 voices
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Abiogenesis #Ancestor #Archean #Biological evolution #Exaptation #Geologic record #Interpretation (philosophy) #Origins and Evolution of Life #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Protist diversity and phylogeny #Protocell
- Building, Maintaining, and (re-)Deploying Genetic Toolkits during Convergent Evolution
2024/07/17 by Todd H Oakley, Todd H. Oakley · 7 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Environmental Science · #Biology #Computer science #Convergent evolution #Evolutionary biology #Exaptation #Gene #Genetics #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Ichthyology and Marine Biology #Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology #Molecular evolution #Phylogenetic tree #Trait
- Culture: The Driving Force of Human Cognition
2018/07/22 by Ivan Colagè, Francesco d’Errico · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · Neuroscience · #Language and cultural evolution #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Categorization, perception, and language #Exaptation #Cognition #Cognitive science #Reuse #Psychology #Human evolution #Mechanism (biology) #Cognitive psychology #Computer science #Sociology #Epistemology #Evolutionary biology #Ecology #Biology #Neuroscience #Philosophy #Anthropology
- Behavioral Plasticity and the Origins of Novelty: The Evolution of the Rattlesnake Rattle
2016/07/28 by Bradley Allf, Paul A. P. Durst, David W. Pfennig · 2 citations
Environmental Science · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Psychology · #Amphibian and Reptile Biology #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Bat Biology and Ecology Studies #Viperidae #Colubridae #Biology #Exaptation #Novelty #Context (archaeology) #Evolutionary biology #Ecology #Zoology #Psychology #Venom #Paleontology
- A latent capacity for evolutionary innovation through exaptation in metabolic systems
2013/07/12 by Aditya Barve, Andreas Wagner · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Neuroscience · #Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction #Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks #Protein Structure and Dynamics #Exaptation #Adaptive evolution #Adaptation (eye) #Biology #Evolutionary biology #Systems biology #Natural selection #Selection (genetic algorithm) #Computational biology #Computer science #Artificial intelligence #Gene #Genetics #Neuroscience
- Genomic analysis of a key innovation in an experimental Escherichia coli population
2012/09/01 by Zachary D. Blount, Jeffrey E. Barrick, Carla J. Davidson +2 · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biology #Clade #Escherichia coli #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #Evolutionary biology #Exaptation #Experimental evolution #Gene #Gene duplication #Genetics #Genome #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Phylogenetics #Population #RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms #Trait
- Emergence of mammals by emergency: exaptation
2010/07/15 by Norihiro Okada, Takeshi Sasaki, Tomomi Shimogori +1 · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Chromosomal and Genetic Variations #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Protist diversity and phylogeny #Biology #Exaptation #Most recent common ancestor #Genome #Evolutionary biology #Comparative genomics #Retrotransposon #Genome evolution #Gene #Transposable element #Genomics #Genetics
- Is evolution Darwinian or/and Lamarckian?
2009/01/01 by Eugene V. Koonin, Yuri I. Wolf · 5 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · #Evolution and Genetic Dynamics #Origins and Evolution of Life #CRISPR and Genetic Engineering #Biology #Transposable element #Genome #Mobile genetic elements #Genetics #Exaptation #Inheritance (genetic algorithm) #Gene #Natural selection #Horizontal gene transfer #Evolutionary biology #Prokaryote #Selection (genetic algorithm)
- Key innovations, convergence, and success: macroevolutionary lessons from plant phylogeny
2005/06/01 by Michael J. Donoghue · 4 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Plant Diversity and Evolution #Plant and animal studies #Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics #Character evolution #Biology #Macroevolution #Exaptation #Evolutionary biology #Diversification (marketing strategy) #Phylogenetics #Clade #Trait #Plant evolution #Key (lock) #Sociocultural evolution #Ecology #Sociology #Computer science #Anthropology
- On "genomenclature": a comprehensive (and respectful) taxonomy for pseudogenes and other "junk DNA".
1992/11/15 by J. Brosius, Stephen Jay Gould · 2 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms #Chromosomal and Genetic Variations #Pseudogene #Exaptation #Biology #Terminology #Evolutionary biology #Computational biology #Organism #Genome #Function (biology) #Genetics #Repertoire #Term (time) #Linguistics #Gene #Philosophy
- Exaptation: A Crucial Tool for an Evolutionary Psychology
1991/10/01 by Stephen Jay Gould · 2 citations
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Neuroscience · #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Philosophy and History of Science #Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior #Exaptation #Conflation #Evolutionary psychology #Sociobiology #Cognitive science #Darwinism #Fallacy #Context (archaeology) #Epistemology #Contingency #Adaptation (eye) #Evolvability #Meaning (existential) #Pejorative #Flexibility (engineering) #Function (biology) #Evolutionary theory #Psychology #Evolutionary biology #Biology #Philosophy #Neuroscience