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Exaptation and Beyond: Multilevel Function Evolution in Biology and Technology

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  • Pierpaolo Andriani
  • Christine Brun

    (TAGC - Theories and Approaches of Genomic Complexity - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale)

  • Giuseppe Carignani
  • Gino Cattani

Abstract

Exaptation contributes significantly to evolution of entities ‘born and made', but little has been written about differences and similarities in the way exaptation takes place in the artificial and natural world. We succinctly describe how such processes take place in the natural and artificial world and focus in particular on the dynamic effect between functional shift of a module of an organism (or artifact) and the resulting change at the level where selection occurs. We show that when exaptation is considered from a modular viewpoint, some of the differences that have plagued the analogy between natural and artificial evolution disappears.

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  • Pierpaolo Andriani & Christine Brun & Giuseppe Carignani & Gino Cattani, 2020. "Exaptation and Beyond: Multilevel Function Evolution in Biology and Technology," Post-Print hal-02901516, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-02901516
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-45784-6_6
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    1. Tian Heong Chan & Shi-Ying Lim, 2023. "The Emergence of Novel Product Uses: An Investigation of Exaptations in IKEA Hacks," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 69(5), pages 2870-2892, May.

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