Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation

Chapter 1 The Evolution of Exaptation, and How Exaptation Survived Dennett’s Criticism

Chapter 2 Nature-Inspired Optimization Methods: How Ants, Bees, Cuckoos, and Other Friends May Improve the Work of Mathematicians

Chapter 4 Exaptation for the Good and the Bad: Regeneration and Cancer

Chapter 5 Quantifying Exaptation in Scientific Evolution

Chapter 6 Exaptation and Beyond: Multilevel Function Evolution in Biology and Technology

Chapter 7 The Role of Affordance Landscapes in Exaptive Innovations

Chapter 8 Mapping Exaptation as Source of Smart Specialization in European Regional Policy Between Tacitness and Codification

Chapter 9 The Technology Second Chance: Leveraging Creativity by Convergence of Serendipity and Exaptation Processes

Chapter 10 Innovation-Oriented Programming: Software Development as a Medium for Exaptation and Implications for the Active Facilitation of Innovation Within Virtual Environments

Chapter 11 Dancing with the Urban Exaptation

Chapter 12 Exaptative Thinking as What Makes Us Human