So, whereas an adaptation is the product of natural selection favoring variants on the basis of, and gradually improving, the current function, an exaptation is a feature that arose for some other reason and subsequently acquired its current function.
A distinct feature that arises for NCM is a unique combination of high strength and plasticity.
By limiting the scan range (Fig. 3(c)), a ~1 µm feature that arises from the fabrication of the microspheres can be seen on the 6 μm microspheres.
The exoperidium is typically fornicate a structural feature that arises when the mesoperidium separates from the exoperidium, adhering only at the edge.
This work highlights the possibility of inferring characteristics describing the organization patterns of users of large social networks, analyzing some mesoscopic features that arise from a statistical and topological investigation.
Here is an entire series devoted to safety features that arose from the wreckage of air crashes caused by microbursts, ripped fuselages, exploding fuel tanks, accidental collisions and tire blowouts.
Developmental biology is the science of explaining how a variety of interacting processes generate an organism's heterogeneous shapes, size, and structural features that arise on the trajectory from embryo to adult, or more generally throughout a life cycle.
GLS approach provides a natural framework in which to represent some evolutionary features that arise from phylogenetic association [28].
The physical scientist thus has two very different roles to play: on the one hand, he has to reveal the most basic constituents and the laws that govern them; and, on the other, he must discover techniques for elucidating the peculiar features that arise from complexity of structure without having recourse each time to the fundamentals.
