What is the body appendics for?

[Gnisy]

Not sure if that is the right spelling but my cousin just took her out in an appendecitis operation. If that 'organ' is supposed to be useless, what is it still here for?

[woofgang]

usually thought to be of no use now (and certainly you can get along without one)but see what this website says

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/vestiges/appendix.html

[Gnisy]

Thanks a lot woofgang. Very interesting page on the appendi(x). Allow me to quote my favorite part of the whole page:

"Its major importance would appear to be financial support of the surgical profession." - Alfred Sherwood Romer and Thomas S. Parsons, The Vertebrate Body (1986), p. 389

[lepers]

i think it has something to do when humans evolved and were eating raw meat the appendix used to do something useful but now i think its redundant n shrunk in size since we cook our meat. most prob wrong tho lol