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(Assimilation & accommodation, or appropriation? -- i'm confused by these distinctions, BUT) -- add, from "Timewalkers: The prehistory of global civilization" by Clive Gamble, which I stumbled across reading Katherine Nelson while in San Diego, **exaptation** : the use of an existing tool for a new purpose, which sets up all sorts of affordances/ demands for novelty in thinking and doing. > -----Original Message----- > From: Glick, Joseph [mailto:JGlick@gc.cuny.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 1:47 PM > To: 'xmca@weber.ucsd.edu' > Subject: RE: Learning Paradox > > > Assimilation, accommodation, adaptation, organization anyone? >