The appendix – a necessary nuisance

Why do we still have an appendix? Measuring only 10 cm long and 7 mm wide, it must be one of the most troublesome vestigial organs in the human body. A quarter of a million cases of appendicitis were accounted for in the US in the five years between 1979 and 1984 and your life-time […]

from The Evolution and Medicine Review http://ift.tt/2kwJV3v