Vestigial
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Vestigial traits can persist when there’s no incentive to lose them— but since there’s also no incentive to keep them, random mutations will sometimes still eliminate them from part of the population.
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It's a very
vestigial
system.
Or are they relics of our evolutionary past, having once served some important purpose only to persist into the present as
vestigial
remnants?
There are several other
vestigial
structures like the plica semilunaris in the human body.
Most of these became
vestigial
long before homo sapiens existed, quietly riding along from one of our ancestor species to the next.
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