Spandrel (biology)
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spandrel-biology-178-10398514
title:
Spandrel (biology)
text:
In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic trait that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection. Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin brought the term into biology in their 1979 paper "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme". Adaptationism is a point of view that sees most organismal traits as adaptive products of natural selection. Gould and Lewontin soug
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encyclopedia
description:
Evolutionary byproduct of some other characteristic
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)
date created:
2006-10-07T15:24:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T13:42:18Z
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