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Natural selection is such an established fact in evolutionary theory that very often one may be led to think that there are no alternative evolutionary products rather than the adaptations. However, as discussed in
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de Oliveira, P.P.B. (1994). Simulation of exaptive behaviour. In: Davidor, Y., Schwefel, HP., Männer, R. (eds) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature — PPSN III. PPSN 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 866. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58484-6_279
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