Great Exaptations: Most Traits Emerge for No Crucial Reason

In Nature this week, Santa Fe Institute External Professor Andreas Wagner and University of Zurich colleague Aditya Barve, by simulating changes in an organism's metabolism, show that most traits may emerge as non-crucial "exaptations" rather than as selection-advantageous adaptations.

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