## Abstract Structures suppressed during evolution can be retraced due to atavisms and vestiges. Atavism is an exceptional emergence of an ancestral form in a living individual. In contrast, ancestral vestige regularly occurs in all members of an actual species. We surveyed data about the vestigial
Evolutionary transformations of the mammalian dentition
β Scribed by P. M. Butler
- Publisher
- Pensoft Publishers
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 750 KB
- Volume
- 77
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0232-5519
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