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  1. Newsgroups: talk.origins
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  3. From: sjchmura@kimbark.uchicago.edu (steven joseph chmura)
  4. Subject: Re: Bad design and vestigial organs
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov22.201232.29011@midway.uchicago.edu>
  6. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  7. Reply-To: sjchmura@midway.uchicago.edu
  8. Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
  9. References: <YMF=z4-@engin.umich.edu> <1992Nov21.013411.17810@s1.gov> <By4oI3.Hv1@access.digex.com>
  10. Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 20:12:32 GMT
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  13. In article <By4oI3.Hv1@access.digex.com> huston@access.digex.com (Herb Huston) writes:
  14. >In article <1992Nov21.013411.17810@s1.gov> lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich) writes:
  15. >>    Human toes. Our feet have toes, one of which is big and
  16. >>slightly separated from the others. For walking, there is no special
  17. >
  18. >There's also the vermiform appendix.  How odd to have a vestigial cellulose-
  19.                             ^%^^^^^^^^^
  20. >digesting organ in an animal whose gut can't digest cellulose.
  21. >
  22. >-- Herb Huston
  23. >-- huston@access.digex.com
  24.  
  25. I think that term is overused when it comes to the apendix.  THe 
  26. "Vestigial appendix" is a great source of lymph patches in humans.
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  29. ________________________________________________________________________________Steven Chmura                University of Chicago Medical School(M1)
  30.   "Given enough time, the impossible becomes probable, and the probable
  31.     inevitable.."  -George Wald, "On the Origins of Life"
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