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Definitions of vestigial in various dictionaries:
adj - not fully developed in mature animals
Of, relating to, or constituting a vestige.
Occurring or persisting as a rudimentary or degenerate structure.
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| Relating to a body part that has lost its use due to evolutionary change |
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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 their ancestral function in a given species. Assessment of the vestigiality must generally rely on comparison with homologous features in related species. The emergence of vestigiality occurs by normal evolutionary processes, typically by loss of function of a feature that is no longer subject to positive selection pressures when it loses its value in a changing environment. The feature may be selected against more urgently when its function becomes definitively harmful, but if the lack of the feature provides no advantage, and its presence provides no disadvantage, the feature may not be phased out by natural selection and persist across species. Typical examples of both types occur in the loss of flying capability in island-dwelling species of birds. |