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Science - Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-) | | English term or phrase: spandrels | Spandrel is a term used in evolutionary biology describing a phenotypic characteristic that is considered to have developed during evolution as a side-effect of a true adaptation, specifically arising from a correlation of growth, rather than arising from natural selection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)
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| | | خاصية غير متوقعة من خواص النمط الظاهري | Explanation:
According to Stephen Jay Gould a spandrel is a metaphor for characteristics that are or were originally side effects and not true adaptations to the environment.
Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin. "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme."
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Note added at 1 day4 hrs (2007-09-10 12:37:01 GMT)
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or since Gould introduced the term to biology borrowing it for architecture as it is shown in this link :
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/gould/commentary/thu...
considering spandrel as an anlogy it would be interesting to see its arabic equivalent in architecture which according to the dictionary of Ahmad Shafiq Al Khateeb is طبان the translator could explain the link between the two in a note (after the permission of the author, if possible)
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Note added at 1 day4 hrs (2007-09-10 12:37:42 GMT)
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Therefore my second proposition is also طبان |
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Spandrel is a term used in evolutionary biology describing a phenotypic characteristic
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phenotypic characteristic
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