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[–] 78 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Fun fact, we evolved to eat raw meat, that's why we have an appendix. Then, when we stopped eating raw meat, we started to evolve away from the appendix.

Evolutionary arguments don't support the naturalist fallacy, because evolution doesn't work like that. It responds to environmental pressures. It's not some guiding light for what we're "meant" to be doing, it's the tools we've got to support what we already did.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    This article says it was for raw vegetables:

    For our ancestors, the appendix most likely evolved to help them digest a diet rich in raw vegetables and cellulose, as it still does in many herbivorous mammals. Thousands of years ago it would have functioned as an extension of the cecum, involved in the bacterial digestion of fibrous plant materials.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    To quote Meatloaf: 🎵🎶 IIIIIIIIIIII WANT MY MONEY APPENDIX BACK!🎶🎵

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