Exaptation and Beyond: Multilevel Function Evolution in Biology and Technology

Pierpaolo Andriani, Christine Brun (), Giuseppe Carignani and Gino Cattani
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Christine Brun: TAGC - Theories and Approaches of Genomic Complexity - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale

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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.

Date: 2020-07-10
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Published in Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation, Springer, Cham, pp.69-84, 2020, The Frontiers Collection, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-45784-6_6⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-45784-6_6

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