Abstract. We study the theory T * of the structure induced by parameter free formulas on a dense algebraically independent subset of a model of a geometric theory T . We show that while being a trivial geometric theory, T * inherits most of the model theoretic complexity of T related to stability, simplicity, rosiness, N IP and N T P 2 . In particular, we show that T is strongly minimal, supersimple of SU-rank 1, or NIP exactly when so is T * . We show that if T is superrosy of thorn rank 1, then so is T * , and that the converse holds if T satis es acl = dcl.