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Vestigiality is the retention,
during the
process of evolution, of
genetically determined structures or
attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral...
- In the
context of
human evolution,
vestigiality involves those traits occurring in
humans that have lost all or most of
their original function through...
- A
vestigial response or
vestigial reflex in a
species is a
response that has lost its
original function. In humans,
vestigial responses include ear perking...
- A
vestigial twin is a form of
parasitic twinning,
where the
parasitic "twin" is so
malformed and
incomplete that it
typically consists entirely of extra...
- "
Vestigial Peter" is the
second episode of the
twelfth season and the 212th
overall episode of the
animated comedy series Family Guy. It
aired on Fox...
- and not
available for video/TV
signals leads to the
usage of
vestigial sideband. A
vestigial sideband (in
radio communication) is a
sideband that has been...
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tails (e.g.
frogs and
hominid primates), the
coccyx is the
homologous vestigial of the tail.
While tails are
primarily considered a
feature of vertebrates...
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skeleton consists primarily of the skull, vertebrae, and ribs, with only
vestigial remnants of the limbs. The
skull of a
snake is a very
complex structure...
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Polydactyly or
polydactylism (from Gr**** πολύς (polys) 'many' and δάκτυλος (daktylos) 'finger'), also
known as hyperdactyly, is an
anomaly in
humans and...
- In
computer programming,
unreachable code is part of the
source code of a
program which can
never be
executed because there exists no
control flow path...
