RUDIMENT GENES. “The drastically altered phenotype of a “rudiment” can sometimes make us forget the shared significance of reduced anatomical structures: they demonstrate the persistence of genes. This is true even in the absence of demonstrable functionality, as in the case of atavisms. Yet vestiges are more consistently present.”
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.23035/full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022