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Isn't that part of what it means to be vestigial? It used to serve a function, but it doesn't now.
by feverdream 3y ago
Isn't that part of what it means to be vestigial? It used to serve a function, but it doesn't now.
- dwighttk 3y agoVestigial has often meant “we don’t know/haven’t identified what function this serves” … yet.
- hammock 3y agoUnfortunately. As with the appendix.
- Intralexical 3y agoThe famously "vestigial" human appendix actually serves as a seed vault for replenishing gut microbiota after a gut disaster, I hear.