Talk:Exaptation

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Revision

Starting with the intent to edit this article (per early spring 07), I ended up completely revising it. The original article lacked references and headings. Besides including those, I inserted two examples that would be understandable to a lay audience (e.g., high school students). The process of exaptation helps to explain why living organisms sometimes appear jury-rigged, as is now explained. (Related articles—preadaptation, co-option, and evolutionary psychology—will point to this article.)

Hopefully, the new structure of this article will facilitate other scholars correcting my errors & improving upon my content. (I see that TimVickers w/ a biochem background has recently improved this article. I look forward to his improvements on my changes.) W Pete Welch 01:01, 6 June 2007 (UTC)W Pete Welch[reply]

Merge

Should preadaptation not be merged with this? I was originally going to propose that it be merged into adaptation, but then found this much larger article. Richard001 10:44, 14 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That seems very appropriate. I'd support that.--Talionis ^{(Shout me · Stalk me)} 09:51, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]