Sunday, July 8, 2012

Vestigial Structure

Vestigial Structure - function less structures that were functioning in an ancestral species. Over time the organism would stop using the structure and then the structure would go away on the outside, but it would remain there on the inside. The human ear has a muscle attached to the ear that cannot move and no longer has a biological function.

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