Troubles with exaptationism

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (4):510-511 (2002)
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There are two kinds of useful traits: adaptations, and all the others. Exaptations are just all the others. Exaptations are not for anything. Because there is such diversity in all the others, exaptation is not an explanatory concept. Its only real use is to block adaptationist excesses.

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