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What are vestigial organs? Give one example.

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Vestigial organs are those organs that were functional in the past but have become useless or have reduced function due to evolutionary changes.
Example- The tail bone in mammals is vestigial. Other mammals use their tails for balance, but when humans began to walk the tail became useless and was converted by evolution to a fused vertebrae called coccyx.

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