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Originally Posted by NuclearFart
Does your buddy think a noticeably disproportionate amount of people with an appendix/gall bladder die before procreation? It really doesn't make a difference in the modern world.
Also, just because you can live without something, doesn't mean its useless. The appendix likely has a role in developing childhood immunity, and the gall bladder helps alot with digestion of fatty foods. You can live without legs/eyes/etc, but that doesn't make them useless....
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I'm no doc but according to him the appendix isn't used at all anymore as it original use was for primitive man to be able to eat a lot of leaves (something to that effect anyway) he did say that some scientists think it has a use in a growing fetus to help the immune system but he doesn't really buy it as the kids that have been born without the organ have been healthy..(I'll ask about the unborn)
As far as the gall-bladder goes. From what I was told if you eat the amount of fat it takes for that thing to work you probably won't see the age of 50. The reason gall stones form is because the enzymes lay dormant in the organ,modern humans don't eat that enough of raw fat to get it working.