#human appendix

[monkeytumbls]

The Human Appendix

When I was seventeen, I had the following conversation about meat with a classmate at school:

“No, you know – muscle tissue. That’s the bit of an animal that we eat – its muscles.” “Is it? Gross!” “Well what part did you think we eat?” “Just the… stuff……

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[ecologyglobal-blog]

Few people give the human appendix much respect. It is seen as a curiously inactive and useless part of our anatomy, and we rarely give it much thought unless something is wrong with it—at which point it is promptly removed, and we go on with life as normal, bearing no indication that entire internal organ has been lost.