Not only in the systems of animal organs, but also in the vegetal apparatus, we find a number of rudimentary organs, many of which we have already noticed.
Moreover, the four gill-clefts of the human embryo are only interesting as rudimentary organs, and they soon close up and disappear.
Of the many and weighty arguments for the truth of this conception of evolution I will for the moment merely point to the invaluable evidence of dysteleology, the science of rudimentary organs.
Only one of them is retained in each sex; the other either disappears altogether, or only leaves relics in the shape of rudimentary organs.
Your comparison of the letters retained in words, when no longer wanted for the sound, to rudimentary organs is excellent, as both are truly genealogical.
Rudimentary organs were no longer a hindrance to our acceptance of design, they became weighty arguments in its favour.
Then are adduced further examples of rudimentary organs, which will be given in another place, and need not be repeated here.
This was the doctrine of final causes as then commonly held; in the face of rudimentary organs it was absurd.
Their crux was, as it still is to so many evolutionists, the presence of rudimentary organs, and the processes of embryological development.
It is manifest that the development of rudimentary organs, with their distribution among the several varieties, is but a partial explanation of the great divergence of character.
But it is sufficiently clear that, upon assuming the truth of our theory, the difficulty offered to the doctrine of final causes by rudimentary organs is obviated.
With species in a state of nature," says Darwin, on page 317, "rudimentary organs are so extremely common that scarcely one can be mentioned which is wholly free from a blemish of this nature.
With species in a state of nature, rudimentary organs are so extremely common that scarcely one can be named which is wholly free from a blemish of this nature.
Unity of Type, Rudimentary Organs, Geographical Distribution, Relation of the extinct to the living Fauna and Flora, and mutual Relations of successive Groups of Fossil Forms.
The Theory of Purposelessness, or the Science of Rudimentary Organs.
Origin of Rudimentary Organs by Non-use and Discontinuance of Habit.
From this point onwards the material is grouped in the same order in both works: geographical distribution; affinities and classification; unity of type and morphology; abortive or rudimentary organs; recapitulation and conclusion.
Some authors, however, have tried to dispute this view and even deny the existence of rudimentary organs.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rudimentary organs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
