Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Vestigial structures


Vestigial structures- functionless structures that were functioning in an ancestral species. The muscles in the human ear are underdeveloped compared to ancestral species of monkeys, because the muscles of the ear was to help move the ear and humans that same level capability. Now that muscle is considered to have no biological function. 

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