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Adaptationism--how to carry out an exaptationist program.

The Behavioral and brain sciences - 1 Aug 2002

Andrews Paul W, Gangestad Steven W, Matthews Dan

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Adaptationism is a research strategy that seeks to identify adaptations and the specific selective forces that drove their evolution in past environments. Since the mid-1970s, paleontologist Stephen J. Gould and geneticist Richard Lewontin have been critical of adaptationism, especially as applie...

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PMID: 12879701
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x02000092

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