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  2. List of prehistoric structures in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire, Neolithic chambered tomb.; Barclodiad y Gawres, Neolithic cruciform passage grave.; Belas Knap, Neolithic long barrow.; Bryn Celli Ddu, Bronze Age passage grave on the site of a Neolithic stone circle and henge.

  3. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Human vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Vestiges - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. Tethys Ocean - Wikipedia

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    First phase of the Tethys Ocean's forming: the (first) Tethys Sea starts dividing Pangaea into two supercontinents, Laurasia and Gondwana.. The Tethys Ocean (/ ˈ t iː θ ɪ s, ˈ t ɛ-/ TEETH-iss, TETH-; Greek: Τηθύς Tēthús), also called the Tethys Sea or the Neo-Tethys, was a prehistoric ocean during much of the Mesozoic Era and early-mid Cenozoic Era.

  9. Roman Bridge of Chaves - Wikipedia

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    The excavations also unearthed vestiges of the old stonework that had existed on the bridge before the construction of the lane way between Braga and Astorga. [ 1 ] In 1967, work to the footings was undertaken by the Comissão Regional de Turismo de Chaves ( Chaves Regional Commission of Tourism ), [ 1 ] along with clearing of vegetation along ...