Not to take away from your beautiful comment, but wasn’t there recently some research that the appendix might actually be beneficial? It had something to do with storing a copy of gut bacteria that can be re-seeded into the gut if needed. (I’ll post a link if I come across the study again.)
Not to take away from your beautiful comment, but wasn’t there recently some research that the appendix might actually be beneficial? It had something to do with storing a copy of gut bacteria that can be re-seeded into the gut if needed. (I’ll post a link if I come across the study again.)
It was ages ago, Wikipedia links to a paper for 2009 and another review paper in 2016.