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  2. Human vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    The muscles connected to the ears of a human do not develop enough to have the same mobility allowed to monkeys. Arrows show the vestigial structure called Darwin's tubercle. In the context of human evolution, vestigiality involves those traits occurring in humans that have lost all or most of their original function through evolution. Although ...

  3. Vestigiality - Wikipedia

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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 function in a given species. [1] Assessment of the vestigiality must generally rely on comparison with homologous features in related species.

  4. Vestigial response - Wikipedia

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    This phenomenon is an automatic-response mechanism that activates even before a human becomes consciously aware that a startling, unexpected or unknown sound has been "heard". [ 2 ] That this vestigial response occurs even before becoming consciously aware of a startling noise would explain why the function of ear-perking had evolved in animals.

  5. Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia

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    LD 350-1 is now considered the earliest known specimen of the genus Homo, dating to 2.75–2.8 Ma, found in the Ledi-Geraru site in the Afar Region of Ethiopia. It is currently unassigned to a species, and it is unclear if it represents the ancestor to H. habilis and H. rudolfensis , which are estimated to have evolved around 2.4 Ma.

  6. Talk:Human vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    This also seems somewhat less dubious, both as a human-specific vestigiality, and the the variation seems to be less possibly accidental, but actually representing different degrees of vestigiality (which is not to place any particular continent population at any hierarchical "kickass" or "loser" place on the "evolutionary scale", not even as ...

  7. Ape to Man - Wikipedia

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    Ape to Man: Theory of evolution did draw criticism from the scientific community about speculative claims made by the producers of the documentary about evidence gained from ancient fragments [5] The specific points noted that were speculative were:

  8. Evidence of common descent - Wikipedia

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    Chromosome 2 thus presents strong evidence in favour of the common descent of humans and other apes. According to J. W. Ijdo, "We conclude that the locus cloned in cosmids c8.1 and c29B is the relic of an ancient telomere-telomere fusion and marks the point at which two ancestral ape chromosomes fused to give rise to human chromosome 2." [30]

  9. Muscular evolution in humans - Wikipedia

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    Humans became taller as the years passed after becoming bipedal which lengthened back muscles at the base of the tail bone and hips which in effect made them weigh more, further hampering their abilities in the trees. Early human ancestors had a tail where modern humans’ tail bone is located. This aided in balance when in the trees but lost ...