NON-ADAPTIVE TRAITS. “Charles Darwin observed that many traits are a consequence of descent from a last common ancestor that are themselves the products of earlier, presumably adaptive evolution. Darwin maintained that currently adaptive traits can and do co-exist with highly conserved traits having no apparent adaptive purpose.”
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/85/4/411.full.pdf
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022