Spandrel

Rarity: Common

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic trait that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Spandrel (biology)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia