kephalos

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Your appendix is not, in fact, useless. This anatomy professor explains ( www.npr.org )

It turns out that the appendix appears to have two related functions. The first function is supporting the immune system. The appendix has a high concentration of immune tissue, so it's acting to help the immune system fight any bad things in the gut....

kephalos ,

If it were useless we would see at least some populations in the world to have lost it altogether.

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