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The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries (Arabic: کتاب الآثار الباقية عن القرون الخالية) Kitāb al-āthār al-bāqiyah `an al-qurūn al-khāliyah, also known as Chronology of Ancient Nations or Vestiges of the Past, after the translation published by Eduard Sachau in 1879) by Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī is a comparative study of the calendrical timekeeping of ...
Vestiges online, in PDF format, scanned from an original text (Electronic Scholarly Publishing) Vestiges online, in HTML and TXT format (Project Gutenberg) Vestiges online, in HTML format (Stephen Jay Gould Archive) [dead link ] Explanations: a sequel to "Vestiges of the natural history of creation" 2nd ed. (1846) from Google Books.
Ileum, caecum and colon of rabbit, showing Appendix vermiformis on fully functional caecum The human vermiform appendix on the vestigial caecum. The appendix was once believed to be a vestige of a redundant organ that in ancestral species had digestive functions, much as it still does in extant species in which intestinal flora hydrolyze cellulose and similar indigestible plant materials. [10]
In humans, the vermiform appendix is sometimes called a vestigial structure as it has lost much of its ancestral digestive function.. Vestigiality is the retention, during the process of evolution, of genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of the ancestral function in a given species. [1]
Vestiges may refer to: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), by Robert Chambers Vestigiality , genetically determined structures or attributes that have lost some or all of their ancestral function
Today vestiges of the third century and fourth century include city walls, temple, circus, mausoleum and "Scipio" Byzantine fortress. Numerous archaeological artifacts are exhibited at the archaeological museum of the city.
Book II, titled "The Witness of History", applied this hypothesis to neolithic culture and the rise of the Mesopotamian and Greek civilizations. Book III, titled "Vestiges of the Bicameral Mind in the Modern World", applies the hypothesis to modern psychological theories of authority, prophecy, possession, poetry, music, hypnosis, and ...
The chief language spoken (of which I have provided examples in an unpublished drama) is based on Indo-European roots and is highly inflected, like Sanskrit, Greek and Latin. [ 4 ] Darrell Schweitzer suggests the idea of writing about a far future land may have come from William Hope Hodgson's novel The Night Land , noting that Smith was an ...