Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
what does Darwin have to do with mod3rn medical ideas about the appendix?
|
from the article "No less than Charles Darwin first suggested that the appendix was a vestigial organ from an ancestor that ate leaves, theorizing that it was the evolutionary remains of a larger structure, called a cecum, which once was used by now-extinct predecessors for digesting food."
so Darwin suggests its some useless evolutionary remains, everyone's like: "sounds good to me, let's just remove that shit cuz useless surgeries are fun". grand.