Sentence examples for evolutionary vestiges from inspiring English sources

In fact, many scientists have thought the short muscles must be the evolutionary vestiges of longer muscles that lost their usefulness over time.

Eighteen different endocrine cells can be identified within the gastrointestinal tract, but it is probable that several of these and their particular peptides are evolutionary vestiges that functioned in other stages of human development, while others may represent different stages of maturation of the same endocrine cell.

Interestingly, Darwin ([1871]) perpetuated the myth that male nipples are true evolutionary vestiges that stem from lactation in male as well as female ancestral mammals.

In addition to remnants of evolutionary change, traces of developmental change likewise exist, and it is important to distinguish embryonic remains from true evolutionary vestiges because people confuse evolutionary and developmental changes.

Texts typically list numerous evolutionary vestiges of humans the 'tail bone' (coccyx), vermiform appendix, 'goose bumps' and body hair, ear muscles, wisdom teeth along with those of other animals, including dewclaws in dogs, pelvic/leg bones in whales, and vestigial eyes of many cave animals, but the developmental dimension is typically ignored.

The topic of developmental 'vestiges' and their proper distinction from true (evolutionary) vestiges provides an opportune occasion for biologists to focus more clearly on the fundamental differences between processes of organismal change, which often bedevil students who lack a clear grasp of evolutionary patterns and processes.

The nucleomorph is an evolutionary vestige that was originally the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell.

The inherent ability of cells to reprogram their fate by switching into an embryonic-like, pluripotent progenitor state is an evolutionary vestige that in mammals has been retained mostly in fetal tissues and persists only in a few organs of the adult body.

There is another possibility, however: Our ability to replace hippocampal neurons could be an evolutionary vestige that is not all that important today, Rakic says.

Because the tail is retained in many 'adult' (i.e., sexually mature) chordates and in nearly all adult vertebrates, with the major exception of apes and frogs this can often be viewed as a true evolutionary vestige when the tail is partly or wholly non-functional in adults.

It may simply be an evolutionary vestige.