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Autodescription — vestigial structure (Q627214)
description: anatomic structure retained during the process of evolution that have lost some or all of its ancestral function
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Vestigial structure vs. vestigiality
[edit]I plan to turn this to "vestigial structure" rather than "vestigiality". This is as this page once was.
1) This is the only way this can be a subclass of anatomic entity rather than property or phenomenon.
2) It matches many non-English Wikipedia title; ontological mismatch between Wikidata and one Wikipedia--the English one--is tolerable. (The ontological match is important within Wikidata, but a bit less between Wikidata and WP.)
3) Britannica has topic "vestigial structure". With the change, we can map on it without ontological mismatch.
3) "vestigial structure" is no rare term and fares well in Google Ngram Viewer against "vestigiality".