it'd be nice if we had compact, intuitive language for talking about the fitness advantages and the stresses that are their mirror image that caused an evolved feature to be selected for without resorting to speaking of an evolved feature's "design goals" or "purpose"
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Oh that’s deliberate! To be able to talk about eg a defective organ, which has a proper function which it doesn’t perform. Only “the rest” isn’t necessarily excluded: *all* the historically-selected stuff becomes proper functions. (Iirc, it’s been a while.)
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ahh okay, that's cool then
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