Mutation and selection can result in functional changes introducing a new function or specialization of old functions [ 38, 39].
Can the gasometer find a new function in our globally corporate age?
"We have now seen the mechanisms by which a new function evolves at the atomic level, how evolution sculpted the protein structure to produce a new function," said Joseph W. Thornton, a biology professor at Oregon who led the research.
Mr. Jacobs saw a new function for the pop-over apron, as a kind of chic tunic with a sash belt.
This is the way of evolution: to achieve a new function it makes use of something already to hand.
Dr. Horvitz's team has found a new function for cells known as phagocytes that engulf foreign agents.
Profuse thermal sweating in humans, then, seems to be a new function.
The probability that subsequent mutations could reshape the unfolded protein into a form with a new function is essentially zero, and that is an evolutionary cul de sac.
I believe that Hopper painted with reproducibility on his mind, as a new function and fate of images in his time.
This process of adapting a structure to a new function was given the name "exaptation" by Gould.
