Stephen Jay Gould, The
Exaptive Excellence of Spandrels as a Term and
The biocultural turn conceptualises human culture, in all its infinite varieties and materialities, as part of the natural and
exaptive evolution of the species in its environment.
Thus, if we consider the ecological differences in the forest canopy of Central Africa, speciation may have occurred in Tetraconcha species both by adaptive and
exaptive radiation, sensu Soulebeau et al.
Music becomes part of the repertoire of modern human behavior as an
exaptive consequence of processes of progressive altricialisation in the hominin lineage.
Is Gopherus agassizii a desert-adapted tortoise, or an
exaptive opportunist?
Among their topics are a neo-Schumpeterian approach to public sector economics, the case of the Cambridge/Boston biotechnology cluster as a case study to investigate whether clustering still benefits high technology new ventures, reverse knowledge transfer and its implications for European policy, promoting effective university commercialization, a theory-based dynamical model of
exaptive innovation processes, and the role of interfaces in product architecture and firm organization.
Music becomes part of the repertoire of modern human behaviour as an
exaptive consequence of processes of progressive altricialisation in the hominin lineage.
The history of the Simplot enterprise continued in a similar vein through a logical process of adding units and stakeholders that included leveraging a variety of contingencies often in an
exaptive fashion (Dew, Sarasvathy, & Venkataraman, 2004).
This kind of
exaptive evolutionary process is nothing exceptional.