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Postby dr.pnj on Thu Apr 14, 2005 2:14 pm

please name the total of all vestigial oragans in man and their function in ancestors?
also
an organ which is functional in an organism today but was vestigial during its course of evolution?
plz help me to get the ans by tomorow
thanks
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Postby mith on Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:13 pm

Oh there are many vestigials, The human tailbone(coccyx), the appendics, male mammary glands,
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Postby biostudent84 on Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:17 pm

If you count earlier hominids, aren't all human organs vestigal?

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