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.