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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. Vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    Vestigial organs are common evolutionary knowledge. [2] In addition, the term vestigiality is useful in referring to many genetically determined features, either morphological, behavioral, or physiological; in any such context, however, it need not follow that a vestigial feature must be completely useless.

  4. Robert Wiedersheim - Wikipedia

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    The young Robert Ernst Eduard Wiedersheim, probably in early 1874 by Alfredo Noack in Genoa. [1]Robert Ernst Eduard Wiedersheim (21 April 1848 – 12 July 1923) was a German anatomist who is famous for publishing a list of 86 "vestigial organs" in his book The Structure of Man: An Index to His Past History.

  5. Why do we have useless body parts? - AOL

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    Humans have many vestigial body parts that may have been useful for our ancestors but are obsolete for us. Useless ... The Today Show. 89 family quotes to share with the people you love most.

  6. Category:Vestigial organs - Wikipedia

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  7. Could This Overlooked Organ Hold The Key To Living Longer?

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    A Brief Biology Breakdown. Here’s what scientists do know: The ovaries are oblong glands each about the size of a kiwi. They’re responsible for the production and secretion of at least two ...

  8. Talk:Human vestigiality - Wikipedia

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    Thus the zoologist Newman stated in the Scopes Trial: "There are, according to Wiedersheim, no less than 180 vestigial structures in the human body, sufficient to make of a man a veritable walking museum of antiquities." Some of the vestigial organs or organs containing evolutionary vestigial structures, as listed on the article about him: Adenoids

  9. The Great Pheromone Myth - Wikipedia

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    The vomeronasal organ, which is the sensory organ that takes in pheromone compounds in mammals such as mice and rats is a vestigial organ in humans. Menstrual synchrony has long been viewed as a physiological phenomenon in humans that could only be explained by the exchange of pheromones among women.