While it persists, its vestiges today often seem more a matter of sentiment than cultural imperative.
Some, however, like the tail rudiment in humans, persist as adult vestiges, reflecting evolutionary ancestry.
Communism and socialism turned out to be wavelets of the past; fascism and its corporate state failed as well -- though their vestiges persist under benighted and authoritarian regimes.
Scientists have recently determined that vestiges of the reflex persist in humans.
Vestiges of such beliefs persist in the modern practice of wearing a birthstone.
For all the changes in Virginia and elsewhere, vestiges of the Southern strategy persist in some Republican quarters.
Fortunately, that wasn't tough, since vestiges of Mitchell's New York persist, even if caricature Gypsies do not.
The nonet score has long since disappeared, but the Argentinian conductor Jorge Rotter has reconstructed it, using the vestiges of the original that persist in the orchestral version as his starting point, to produce the substantial chamber piece that made up the bulk of Ensemble Modern's programme.
Given that low-predation populations were likely originally colonized from high-predation populations in the same river [22], this result suggests that some vestiges of ancestral preferences may persist for a considerable time following the colonization of new environments.
What should also matter to a contemporary audience seeing a movie about the evils of slavery are the intractable vestiges of slavery's legacy that persist even now".
While Goodman may appear to be, and is usually discussed as, criticizing the resemblance theory of pictorial representation the "most naïve view of representation" (1976, 3)—his real target is indeed much broader than that after all, of the resemblance view he also claims that "vestiges" of it, "with assorted refinements, persist in most writing on representation" (1976, 3).
