Preadaptive characteristics in living things are those that could help them to do well in a new environment.

The formation of internal nostrils was preadaptive for animals that had to restrict contact between the dry air of the environment and their respiratory organs. 对于必须限制环境中干燥空气与其呼吸器官之间接触的动物来说，内鼻孔的形成是一种预先适应。

The large seed and pod would seem to be pre-adaptive to the plant's cultivation as a pulse.

The evolution of cognition is the product of a variety of influences and preadaptive capacities.