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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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Vestigial organs are organs, tissues or cells in a body which are no more functional the way they were in their ancestral form of the trait. In humans, the appendix is a good example of a vestigial organ. This non-functioning organ eventually degenerates, shrinking in size disappearing ultimately.
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