Do appendix in humans have any function?If no, then y is it still existing?r we not completely evolved?
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evolution doesnt happen instantaneously\n\nthe appendix is believed to have a function (thousands of years ago) to digest raw meat, however, now that we're civilized, the organ has begun to shrunk\n\nEVENTUALLY the organ will completely disappear, but as of now evolution will still require more generations\n\nah the wonders of science
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Technically speaking, it is called the vermiform appendix.  Vermi refers to worm and if you look at an appendix, you will see that it looks quite a bit like a worm.
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At one point in time humans ate grass and the appendix actually produced chemicals needed to digest grass. But now it has no function.
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we didn't evolve from apes, but we do share a common ancestor\n\nbtw:  humans are technically apes too.
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Gas?  Seriously, I'm not trying to be funny.  I was hospitalized when I was like 10, because the doctors thought I had appendicitis, but it ended up being gas.  Kinda funny.\n\n**for all of you guessing appendicitis, your appendix is on your right side, NOT your left.
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We did evolve from a previous species, one that diverged from an ancestor that was common to apes, but it's possible that the human line was never, strictly speaking, the SAME as an ape...it depends on how severe the genetic mutation was...\n\nddead: I like how you point out all of the hoaxes and don't state that there have been many skeletons found and recorded for Home habilis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis (while not necessarily man, still the same genus and possibly one that bred with sapiens), and you don't even mention the whole genus Australopithecus, a commonly cited group of ancestors...\n\nEvolution hasn't been proven, but there is a theory and ongoing science to support this theory, part of which is actual physical evidence...Creationists have stories and faith, but I guess that's enough for them...
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No,Just like we can't be saved by christ.We evolved from apes.We are animals our selves.We just have concepts of what is right and wrong.Those are just concepts.There is no right and wrong.We didn't have to ecknowledge God when we were apes.Why is it important now.Do you think God created heaven after we evolved into humans?When we were apes, we also didn't have concepts of right and wrong.We went by instint alone .Now we have those same instints,we just have the mind to categorize them.How does that make us any more valuable than any other creature.We are not.We're just more intellegent.\n\nGod created all creatures.Why would he just give us a soul and not animals.We are animals ourselves.We evolved from apes.So you're saying we didn't have a soul untill we evolved into humans?
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Reason why male have nipples:\n1. To distinguish that they are mammals.\n2.A human baby inherits one copy of every gene from his or her father and one copy of every gene from his or her mother.\n3. It is the effect of the genes.\n\nReason for spleen:\nSpleen is a purplish-red organ shaped like a loose fist and located in the upper-left part of your abdominal cavity. It had been called "the most ignored and misunderstood of all organs." In ancient times, people believed it was the seat of the emotions, but actually it is an integral part of your immune system.\nJob description includes: \n1.filtering out foreign organisms that infect your blood \n2.removing your old or damaged platelets and red blood cells \n3.storing extra blood and releasing it as needed \n4.forming some types of white blood cells \nIf the spleen can be injured or diseased it can be removed through spleenectomy, you can live without it however,your resistance to infection will be lowered, at least initially. \n\nAppendix\nThe appendix is thought to have descended from an organ in our distant herbivorous ancestors called the cecum (or caecum). The cecum is maintained in modern herbivores, where it houses the bacteria that digest cellulose, a chemically tough carbohydrate that these animals could not otherwise utilize. The human appendix contains no significant number of these bacteria, and cellulose is indigestible to us. It seems likely that the appendix lost this function before our ancestors became recognizably human.\n\nSee my dear, this organs my not be vital as others but to maintain the human body in the state of balance equilibrium.
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The appendix in the body serves no purpose.\n\nThe appendix in a book can be very useful.
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The tailbone is a vestigial structure, which means there is no use for it. The reason we have it is because at some point in our evolutionary line, an animal that humans evolved from had a tail. Over a very long period of time, and as we evolved into human beings (Homo sapiens), we grew out of a need for it, and it gradually decreased in size, becoming what is now our tailbone (coccyx).
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monkeys did NOT evolve into humans.  neither did apes or any other primate currently living on this planet.\n\nHUMANS AND MONKEYS AND APES SHARED A COMMON ANCESTOR.\n\nIt has been 5 minutes since I last posted this answer.
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First of all, when dealing with biology, you should never BELIEVE that there is a PURPOSE for anything. This sort of thinking evokes the notion that this structure was disigned to do something. Biological structures evolve into their present form because that form is more fit than any of the alternative forms that came before.\n\nAs for the outer ear (the visable portion that protrudes from the side of your head) the function they provide is as a condensor to collect and concentrate energy waves that are able to be decifered by our inner ear and brain as sound.
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Do you still have your appendix?
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Men have nipples b/c humans all come from a common ancestor.  And when we evolved, certain structures remained w/o a purpose.  This is refered to as having vesigal structures--a body part that has no function.  It is equivalent to hip bones in snakes and wing bones in dolphins.
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Impossible to say because our appendix has been with us for thousands of years at least.
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You're assuming that there is only one way of surviving. Our ancestral ape, from whom both humans and modern apes have descended (contrary to popular belif, we did not descend from the modern apes - we just have the same great-great-grandparents :-)) Now, due to variation, this ancestral species developed into a number of different beasts - some succesful, some not. What we see now as chimps and humans are merely the current state of evolution of two of these branches, both succesful, and both with a long history of extinct intermediate forms connecting them to their ancestor.\n\nOh, and by the way -- the term "the missing link" is a misnomer. It implies that we have not found any solid evidence that humans are evolutionarily tied to the apes. We have dozens of intermediate forms showing this pathway, so there are no links missing. (Of course, what you sometimes hear is that there is no intermediate form between, say, Australopithecus Robustus and Austrolopithecus Boisei and claim that there is a missing link there. But then say that somebody found the fossil connecting the two species. Would that mean that the missing link proponents would stop asking for one? No! Now, we have TWO new missing links - one to link Robustus to the new species, AND one to link the new species to Boisei! Evolution is a continuum, and fossilization is a sporadic and rather 'selective' process, so there will always be something missing from the fossil record. To be intellectually honest, however, you need to not only focus on the gaps, but on the picture the actual fossils paint.)
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it has been suggested that it was used to get rid of poisons you ingested from ,and to digest, plants and uncooked animals. But, Currently, the function of the appendix, if any, remains controversial in the field of human physiology. The wall of the appendix, however, contains lymphatic tissue that is part of the immune system for making antibodies.\n\nHypothesized functions for the appendix include lymphatic, exocrine, endocrine, and neuromuscular functions. However, most physicians and scientists believe the appendix lacks significant function, and that it exists primarily as a vestigial remnant of the larger cellulose-digesting cecum found in our herbivorous ancestors. Some people note, however, that the pineal gland which only recently (around 1960) has been found to produce important chemicals like melatonin was once considered a "vestigial remnant" as well.\n\nThere have been cases of people who have been found, usually on laparoscopy or laparotomy, to have a congenital absence of their appendix. There have been no reports of impaired immune or gastrointestinal function.