Associations to the word «Preadaptation»

Wiktionary

PREADAPTATION, noun. (biology) An adaptation that evolved in an ancestral population, in which it served a different function

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky