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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King