Spurious
No that's not quite it.
BBH said "True, but preadaptive change is not an adaptation until the situation arises where it is useful..."
In this case surely preadaptive change is not adaptive at all. It is just happens to seem adaptive later, because of environmental change.
Surely adaptionism requires that adaptions are selected for at the they time that they happen? Otherwise they're not adaptions, they're just non-useful mutations.
Canute
No that's not quite it.
BBH said "True, but preadaptive change is not an adaptation until the situation arises where it is useful..."
In this case surely preadaptive change is not adaptive at all. It is just happens to seem adaptive later, because of environmental change.
Surely adaptionism requires that adaptions are selected for at the they time that they happen? Otherwise they're not adaptions, they're just non-useful mutations.
Canute