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any new com po nent be ing add ed to things had or gans that were in her it -
their gene pool. For ex am ple, no ed from their an ces tors, but which
mat ter how much you seek to en rich had grad u al ly be come small er and
their spe cies, cats will al ways re main even func tion less from lack of use.
cats, and will nev er evolve in to any Those or gans were in fact ones
oth er mam mal. It is im pos si ble for whose func tions had not yet been
the so phis ti cat ed so nar sys tem in a iden ti fied. And so, the long list of or -
ma rine mam mal to emerge through gans be lieved by ev o lu tion ists to be
re com bi na tion. (See ves tig i al grew ev er short er. The list
Recombination.) Variation may ac - of orig i nal ly pro posed by the
count for the dif fer en ces be tween German anat o mist R. Wiedersheim
hu man ra ces, but it can nev er pro - in 1895 con tain ap prox i mate ly 100
vide any ba sis for the claim that apes or gans, in clud ing the hu man ap pen -
de vel oped in to hu man be ings. dix and the coc cyx. But the ap pen dix
was even tu al ly re al ized to be a part
of the lymph sys tem that com bats
VESTIGIAL ORGANS mi crobes en ter ing the body, as was
THESIS, THE stat ed in one med i cal ref er ence

One claim that long oc cu pied a source in 1997:
place in the lit er a ture of ev o lu tion Other bod i ly or gans and tis sues—-the
but was qui et ly aban doned once it thy mus, liv er, spleen, ap pen dix, bone
was re al ized to be false is the con -
cept of ves tig i al or gans. Some ev o -
lu tion ists, how e ver, still im ag ine
that such or gans rep re sent ma jor
ev i dence for ev o lu tion and seek to
por tray them as such.
A cen tu ry or so ago, the claim
was put for ward that some liv ing

The ton sils, which ev o lu tion ists long
sought to de fine as ves tig i al or gans,
have been found to play an im por tant
role in pro tect ing against throat in fec -
tions, par tic u lar ly up un til adult hood.

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