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Yes, it is likely to have at least some residual function or role in the physiology of the whale. Even wisdom teeth in humans, although often detrimental in effect and hardly unmissable, can be said to have a role in our digestive tract. What makes it evidence for common descent is not any presumed function or lack thereof, but the fact that it is morphologically what we should expect it to be if whales descended from land mammals.

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