Sentence examples for vestiges whether from inspiring English sources

Whereas true vestiges, whether anatomical, behavioral, or physiological, reveal information about evolutionary history, the circulatory and urogenital embryonic 'vestiges' described above yield clues to developmental history.

Why these cliffs are chalk and not limestone is a matter of ocean chemistry, of whether the mineral vestiges of planktonic life, settling on the seafloor as oozes and muds, needed to recrystallize as limestone or could indurate in their original texture.

Though the parties in the lawsuit pledged to work together today, they continued to disagree over whether there were any "vestiges of segregation" in the schools.

That court sent the case back to Judge Sand to determine whether there are still vestiges of segregation in the schools.

In one way, though, the remaining vestiges of the past decade's excesses, whether they live on in the shouted sophistry of CNBC or in the ashes of Stanford's castle, are useful.

It is not clear whether these are functional vestiges or instances involving alternate substrates and interacting partners.

We did not, however, sequence mtDNA haplotypes and cannot comment on whether these clusters represent vestiges of the colonization or expansion of distinct geographic lineages.

And so she returns, implicitly, to the question of whether the body's "painful vestiges of class and circumstance" can be overwritten or erased.

All Indians, whether Christian, Muslim, Parsi, Buddhist, Jain or Hindu, carry some vestiges of the caste system in them.

This made us vestiges of vestiges.

The last vestiges of Christmas.