appendix

[alfie atkins]

what use do the appendix have on our body?

[WaldoMcFroog]

None! The appendix is an organ designed to break down cellulose (look away now Creationalists - I'm about to use some facts) i.e. it would originally they were more dependant on a vegetable based diet. Since human beings are omnivorous (eat both meat and veg) the dependency on extracting quite so much nutrition from one source lessened and in humans the organ attrophied. In rabbits for instance, it is an essential part of the digestive process. That why they can remove it if they get inflamed.

[tief]

WaldoMcFroog is right about man and beast - just a bit of trivia ... koalas eat eucalyptus leaves (poisonous and tough) and their appendix is about 2 meters long.

[smithers]

tief, i really hope u r not from the uk as Metre is the correct spelling. Meter is another example of americanism of our laungauge. But we can use the term Meter if you are describing a gas meter for example. P.S. cool name Mr McFroog

[tief]

Smithers, agreed - fingers got tangled on kbd.