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Black conservatives frequently get called "moderate" simply because they maintain some vestigial sensitivity about race.
Martinis, barbecues, cigarettes, adultery--all are now vestigial, but where are the new suburban symbolic hooks?
Even so, vestigial sympathy for Serbs remains today in Israel (and, in a much more limited way, in the United States).
For example, to explain how mutation can cause the loss of a function, the authors discuss the relatively poor sense of smell in humans, as compared with many other mammals, using an example of a vestigial ‘pseudogene’ of a human olfactory receptor gene.
Most of the world's remaining monarchs possess a number of colorful inherited titles ("Defender of the Faith" in Great Britain, "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques" in Saudi Arabia), but these are functional designations and little more than quaint vestigial appendages, like a whale's arms.