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What are vestigial organs​

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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. Assessment of the vestigiality must generally rely on comparison with homologous features in related species.

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These are 'useless' body-parts, otherwise known as vestigial organs, are remnants of lost functions that our ancestors possessed

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