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BIOL 102 HUMANS in NATURE. ARCANE WORD of the week: Jan 26, 2012. A MIND – once stretched by a new idea (like heart once stretched by love) – never regains its former shape. O. Spring 2012 Neil Greenberg. BIOL 102 HUMANS in NATURE. Spring 2012 Neil Greenberg. ARCANE WORD
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BIOL 102 HUMANS in NATURE ARCANE WORD of the week: Jan 26, 2012 A MIND – once stretched by a new idea (like heart once stretched by love) – never regains its former shape. O Spring 2012 Neil Greenberg
BIOL 102 HUMANS in NATURE Spring 2012 Neil Greenberg ARCANE WORD of the week: Jan 26, 2012 O BRICOLAGE
In exploring this term you should consider ... • Multi-tasking traits • What might cause an alternative function of a trait to dominate ? • “Collateral effects” and “side-effects” and the “law of unintended consequences” BIOL 102 HUMANS in NATURE O Bricolage
In exploring this term you should consider the origin ... • Traits may have been much more useful (=“adaptive” ie, important in helping organism meet biological needs, cope with “selection pressure”) • In a DIFFERENT CONTEXT • developmental • environmental • evolutionary • physiological Arcane word-of-the-week: BRICOLAGE Nature is a BRICOLEUR O