How come human beings have appendixes if they don’t need really them?
asks Kayla Winchester, a student in Manhasset, NY. The appendix. Can’t live with it, can’t live without it. Oh, wait. Actually, the appendix is one of the body’s most unobtrusive organs. No painful protests, like the ungrateful stomach after Thanksgiving dinner. No gasping after a sprint to the finish line, courtesy of the overworked lungs. And no ominous rumbling, like intestines encountering the wrong restaurant tomato. And not only can we live nicely with an appendix, we can also live happily without one, if need be. Did nature simply get sloppy and produce a worm-like cave on the large intestine? Recently, researchers at Duke University in North Carolina unveiled a new explanation for the appendix’s existence. Hint: Rather like the fire extinguisher that usually sits unused on the wall, this tiny organ may be good in a crisis. The 2- to 4-inch-long appendix juts from the right side of the large intestine like the tail on a dog. Only about a third of an inch in diameter, the narrow
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