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  2. Human vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    Ileum, caecum and colon of rabbit, showing Appendix vermiformis on fully functional caecum The human vermiform appendix on the vestigial caecum. The appendix was once believed to be a vestige of a redundant organ that in ancestral species had digestive functions, much as it still does in extant species in which intestinal flora hydrolyze cellulose and similar indigestible plant materials. [10]

  3. Pharyngeal arch - Wikipedia

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    The nerve of the arch itself runs along the cranial side of the arch and is called post-trematic nerve of the arch. Each arch also receives a branch from the nerve of the succeeding arch called the pre-trematic nerve which runs along the caudal border of the arch. In human embryo, a double innervation is seen only in the first pharyngeal arch.

  4. Tadpole person - Wikipedia

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    A tadpole person [1] [2] [3] or headfooter [4] [5] is a simplistic representation of a human being as a figure without a torso, with arms and legs attached to the head. Tadpole people appear in young children's drawings before they learn to draw torsos and move on to more realistic depictions such as stick figures .

  5. Why some people have a small hole in front of their upper ears

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    A Business Insider video about preauricular sinus points out that evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin suspects "these holes could be evolutionary remnant of fish gills."

  6. List of aquatic humanoids - Wikipedia

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    The Fish People from the radio broadcast Alexei Sayle and the Fish People; The Fishmen are a race of fish-like humans from the anime One Piece. They are modeled after different aquatic lifeforms. The Fishmen can breed with Giants to create Wotans. Gill (aka Gil Moss) from "Kim Possible" [39] Goo, a mermaid character from Gumby [40]

  7. Baby with extremely rare defect born with one eye in middle ...

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    Dr. Ahmed Badruddin, the baby's doctor, says that the boy has a full head of hair and very large ears. In addition to only having one eye, the baby has a number of other deformities on his body.

  8. Artificial gills (human) - Wikipedia

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    Artificial gills are hypothetical devices to allow a human to be able to take in oxygen from surrounding water. This is speculative technology that has not yet been demonstrated. Natural gills work because most animals with gills are thermoconformers (cold-blooded), so they need much less oxygen than a thermoregulator (warm

  9. Craniopagus parasiticus - Wikipedia

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    Drawing of the Boy of Bengal, affected by craniopagus parasiticus Only four cases have been documented by modern medicine to have survived birth: [ 6 ] The first case on record is that of the so-called "Two-Headed Boy of Bengal", who was born in 1783 at the village of Mandal Ghat in the New Jalpaiguri district in what is now the Indian state of ...