- population thinking
- position effect
- positional field
- positional information
- positionality
- post-genomics
- post-stabilized harmony
- potonuon
- pre-conceptual judgements
- preadaptation
- preaptation
- precocial
- predation
- predator
- predator
- predator-mediated coexistence
- preformation
- prehatching parental care
- prehension
- preservation of species
- preservation teleology
Result of Your Query
preaptationpreaptation (fr.); Präaptation (ger.)
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A trait that possibly obtains a new function that is different from the function it was selected for in the past.
- 1982
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The term "preadaptation" should be dropped in favor of "preaptation." Preaptations are potential, but unrealized, exaptationsGould, S.J. & Vrba, E.S. (1982). Exaptation – a missing term in the science of form. Paleobiol. 8, 4-15: 11.