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Why some animals have certain useless organs (vestigial organs) in their body ?

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The existence of useless organs (vestigial organs) in animal's bodies can be explained by the doctrine of organic evolution. Accordingly, these organs were fully developed, functional and necessary in the ancestral forms, but are gradually disappearing in the living forms due to change in their mode of life.

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