Feathers work remarkably well for flight. Fairly rigid, yet light, with a lot of surface area to push against air molecules, they permit birds to soar to great heights. Yet scientists are now starting ...

Venoms have evolved on more than 100 occasions across the animal kingdom 1. On each occasion, emergence of each of these chemical arsenals was accompanied by the evolution of specialized structures ...

It has usually been claimed that language is what makes humans uniquely human. However, I submit that it is the mind as a general problem-solving capacity for adaptations to current ecological ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Exaptation is a familiar concept to evolutionary biologists. It's the basic idea explaining that a trait can evolve because it starts serving a different function. Think of birds: at ...

A computational study reveals surprising flexibility hidden within metabolic networks, providing new evidence for an evolutionary concept called exaptation. Evolution is littered with examples of ...

Exaptation refers to the process by which existing technologies or components acquire new functions distinct from those for which they were originally designed. In technological innovation, exaptation ...

One of the most iconic images of the Pacific Northwest is the salmon run, when salmon return from the ocean, swimming upstream to their place of birth in order to spawn. This requires tremendous ...