More than one Jewish author these days seems to have some preserved human vestige of the past up his sleeve — or in his freezer.
He had spent his period of invisibility in the small town of Benicia, Calif., where he did odd jobs and won the affection of all as a benign and colorful human artifact, a vestige of the rough-and-tumble New York City.
The variability of genetic diversity across different human populations, a vestige of the history of human migrations, is consequential for population differences in a variety of settings of societal interest.
In "The Time Machine," the narrator travels to the year 802,701, only to find that every vestige of human achievement, and humanity itself, has disappeared.
Yet now all vestiges of human life had been stripped away.
South Georgia, at 1,450 square miles a little bigger than Rhode Island, has more vestiges of human history than we expected.
The earliest vestiges of human occupation found on this site date from the Chalcolithic (4th millennium BC).
"We may have different beliefs... different views, but we have to protect such incredible vestiges of human history," UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova told Reuters Television.
In fact, the blossoming science of "evolutionary medicine" has pointed out that many human diseases are simply vestiges of our hunter-gatherer existence and some of the best characterized among these are thought to have provided protection against starvation [ 8].
Some, however, like the tail rudiment in humans, persist as adult vestiges, reflecting evolutionary ancestry.
