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  2. Vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    In humans, the vermiform appendix is sometimes called a vestigial structure as it has lost much of its ancestral digestive function.. 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]

  3. Human vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    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 structures called vestigial often appear functionless, they may retain lesser functions or develop minor new ones.

  4. Vestigial response - Wikipedia

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    The sudden startled arm-jerking response sometimes experienced when on the verge of sleeping is known as the hypnic jerk.. The evolutionary explanation for the existence of the hypnic jerk is unclear, but a possibility is that it is a vestigial reflex humans evolved when they usually slept in trees.

  5. Robert Wiedersheim - Wikipedia

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    The young Robert Ernst Eduard Wiedersheim, probably in early 1874 by Alfredo Noack in Genoa. [1]Robert Ernst Eduard Wiedersheim (21 April 1848 – 12 July 1923) was a German anatomist who is famous for publishing a list of 86 "vestigial organs" in his book The Structure of Man: An Index to His Past History.

  6. Talk:Human vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    Thus the zoologist Newman stated in the Scopes Trial: "There are, according to Wiedersheim, no less than 180 vestigial structures in the human body, sufficient to make of a man a veritable walking museum of antiquities." Some of the vestigial organs or organs containing evolutionary vestigial structures, as listed on the article about him: Adenoids

  7. Vestigial structures - Wikipedia

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  8. Talk:Vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    Focus more on vestigiality as a whole rather than structures only - behavioral and physiological characters that are vestigial need to be given proper attention. Go into more detail in examples given (fewer, more detailed examples are better than a large list of brief example) Add more non-human vestigial structures to its section.

  9. List of Indonesian films - Wikipedia

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    Premiered in The South by Southwest Film Festival Sinema Purnama: Radian Kanugroho, Andra Fembriarto, Pandu Birantoro, Ray Nayoan: Drama, Anthology film: The Witness: Muhammad Yusuf: Drama, Thriller: 3 Pocong Idiot: Nayato Fio Nuala: Horror comedy: Based on the novel of the same name Kuntilanak-Kuntilanak: Koya Pagayo: Horror: Hattrick: Robert ...