42 month ago
jkottke : Making sense of the appendix - Making sense of the appendix, the one in your body, not the one in books. "Perhaps the appendix lifted the odds that our ancestors could resist childhood diseases and live to childbearing years."
deusx : The Riddle of the Appendix - New York Times - "I was grateful that we have not only inherited a danger-prone appendix, but a brain that can invent surgery."
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