Sentence examples for secondary adaptation from inspiring English sources

Most authorities now believe that the free digits are a secondary adaptation that allows the young hoatzin great mobility during its flightless period and allows it to climb out of the water, into which it may deliberately drop when danger threatens.

Fig. 2 A simple example of exaptation and secondary adaptation.

The evolution of wings provides one of the classic examples of exaptation and secondary adaptation.

Further modification for this new semiflight function (secondary adaptation) would eventually render the structure suitable for yet another functional shift, namely to weak powered flight (exaptation again), with further modifications leading to new improvements specific to flight (secondary adaptation again).

Thus, indirect evolution, especially exaptation and secondary adaptation, has played a significant role in the evolution of corneas and lenses as they exist in modern vertebrates.

Both component molecules predate the origin of vision, and their merger and subsequent specialization in visual systems represents an important example of evolution through collage, exaptation, and secondary adaptation.

In some cases, preventive therapy may be more appropriately configured as "biomodulation" therapy that not only aims to disarm the initial disease-causing stimulus but also targets the secondary adaptations that can occur as a cell and tissue adapt to an abnormal growth stimulus.

The features of aquatic caecilians of the family Typhlonectidae are representative of secondary adaptations.

can thus be considered subsequent secondary adaptations.

Most complex organs are likely to represent a mixture of primary adaptations, exaptations, and secondary adaptations.

Gould and Vrba (1982) referred to modifications subsequent to co-option of the exapted trait as "secondary adaptations".