Rudimentary

Because it's not so easy to gain or lose limbs. Even aquatic mammals which seem to have no limbs, have still rudimentary legs. In other words, it is easier to change something than to gain or lose it.

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Hello! I am involved in academia professionally, but my knowledge of evolutionary biology is pretty rudimentary. I sometimes read about animals in my spare time, particularly arthropods, which have interested me since I was young. Anyhow, I was looking at photos of spiders ...

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... NOW. How did the octopus manage to catch up? How does it manage to complete the process before the same natural selection tosses not yet useful rudimentary endeavor into a trashcan due to its low immediate utility or its obsolescence by the time it’s fully developed? The vast majority of species ...

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... mechanisms before it developed the look and behavior it has now. If that’s true, wouldn’t the bug loose the features you see on the photo in their rudimentary stages in the process of evolutionary development due to their low immediate / stand-alone utility, before it even had a chance to reach ...

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... color in Drosophila is brick red. White and vermillion are eye color mutations and are recessive. Yellow is a recessive body color. Miniature and rudimentary are recessive wing mutations. The symbols for each are: yellow (y), white (w), vermillion (v), miniature (m), rudimentary (r). Our homework ...

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