Given the myriad challenges of evolutionary education and the potential importance of vestiges in explaining evolution, reserving the term vestige solely for holdovers of evolution is recommended to avoid unnecessary confusion.
While this may be a possible fate for some lineages through the course of evolutionary history, there is a myriad of recent literature documenting cases of just the opposite: divergence with gene flow and long-term maintenance of species boundaries in the face of secondary contact [ 89, 90, 92- 94, 96].
Analysis of non-coding DNA from the human, mouse and other vertebrate genomes suggests that a large fraction of evolutionary conserved regions therein are involved in transcriptional regulation, and there are now myriad examples of vertebrate enhancers identified through experimental analysis of conserved non-coding DNAs (e.g. [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12]).
"The Structure of Evolutionary Theory," of course.
We are out of evolutionary synch.
It's a sort of evolutionary politics.
Early advocate of evolutionary theory.
Peirce speaks of evolutionary love.
By the time I get around to explaining the basic tenets of evolutionary theory in my classes, we have spent a semester and a half talking about chromosomes, genes, alleles, embryology, biochemistry, the cell theory (interestingly, a "theory" that no one seems to doubt anymore), taxonomy, and a myriad of other topics.
