The appendix – why we need it
Nutri-Link Ltd - Clinical Education,
The term vestigial organ is used to describe tissues that are typically in a degenerate, atrophied, or rudimentary condition…
A Home for the Bugs in Our Appendix
The Times Microbial,
The appendix has long been considered a useless, vestigial organ, primarily based on the fact that it can be removed with no…
Darwin was wrong about the human appendix being vestigial
Pleiotropy,
Rudiments and vestiges
Evolving Thoughts,
A new paper has just come out on the functionality of the human appendix, or cecum (caecum in British biology). The authors…