The fuzzy zone between exaptation and phenotypic adaptation
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (4):529-530 (2002)
| Abstract | The target article adopts an adaptationist research strategy that, while logically coherent, suffers from various limitations, including problems in reconstructing past selective environments, ambiguity in how narrowly to define adaptive problems or selection pressures, and an overemphasis on specialization in evolved psychological mechanisms. To remedy these problems, I support a more flexible approach involving phenotypic adaptation and cultural evolution. | |||||||||
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