Due Sunday, May 1 at midnight. Please read the attached paper by Gould and Vrba on exaptation and write a 700 word summary. Be sure to address the following: What is the problem with our previous conception of adaptation? What was missing? What are some examples of how conflating these two separate ideas into one term has caused misunderstanding? What is wrong with the term preadaptation? What is teleology (used, but not defined in the paper – if you are not familiar, please look it up)? How does use of the term preadaptation invoke teleology? Describe how the use of the term exaptation avoids the problems inherent in the term preadaptation. *NOTE – please check your originality report before the due date and correct any matches. If you worked on this with another student, that is great, but make sure your papers are completely independent. If there are matches, they won”t show up for the first one to submit, but they will be there by the time I see it.
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