Table 1 Various terms for features in organisms that appear to point to descent with modification

Rudimentary, atrophied, or aborted organs, atavisms

Darwin (1859); Hall (2010)

Vestiges/vestigial organs

Darwin (1859); Werth (2014)

Scars

Krogman (1951); Morgan (1994)

Senseless signs of history

Gould (1978b)

Exaptations

Gould and Vrba (1982); Vrba (2002)

Imperfections and oddities

Gould (1986); Margulis et al. (2005)

Palimpsests

Weiss and Kawasaki (2006); Morange (2008); Coyne (2009); Mayer (2009)

Remnants of evolution

Spinney (2008)

Contrivances

Darwin (1862)

Traces of common descent

Rogers (2011)