Vestigial Organs Not So Useless After All, Studies Find

Friday, July 31, 2009 - 10:49 in Biology & Nature

Sure, you can live without your spleen or your appendix, but evidence is mounting that these and other "useless" vestigial organs are actually hard at work keeping you healthy.

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