vestigial
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Vestigial structures are the result of common ancestry, so they are good evidence that different populations of organisms evolved from a common point.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Vestigial structures are the result of common ancestry, so they are good evidence for a common origin of all life.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Vestigial is a beautiful descriptor, but it is perhaps too generous: if your appendix is removed, for instance, you’ll probably notice.
From Slate • Feb. 4, 2019
Vestigial structures, in case your child asks, also provide evidence of evolution, suggesting ways in which structures that were perhaps once useful no longer are.
From Slate • Oct. 18, 2013
Loss of characters 66-68 "Eyeless" of Drosophila 66-67 Vestigial wings of Drosophila 67 Bar eye of Drosophila 67-68 d.
From A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Morgan, Thomas Hunt
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Ender's Game
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