It may be a vestigial organ of ancient humans that has degraded to nearly nothing of its original purpose, or evolved to take on a new purpose over the course of evolution.
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Intelligent design proponents seek to explain the vestigial organs have unknown purposes ), or by proposing that designers do not necessarily produce the best design they can, and may have unknowable motives for their actions.
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SCI-BRODY-HEALTH ( Undated )-- The Personal Health column : The appendix, a vestigial organ that people seem able to live very well without, is also one of the most distressing and costly parts of the human body.
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Christian scientist Sir David Brewster wrote an article called " The Facts and Fancies of Mr . Darwin " where he rejected many Darwinian ideas, such as those concerning vestigial organs or questioning God's perfection in his work.
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Has it been estimated when approximately in the future vestigial organs ( some or all ) in humans such as coccyx or wisdom tooth will completely gone away ? talk 19 : 09, 14 November 2016 ( UTC)
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This definition is consistent with Wiedersheim, who said that vestigial organs are " wholly or in part functionless " ( Wiedersheim 1893, p . 200 ) and have " lost their original physiological significance " ( p . 205 ).
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:It isn't enough that something not be useful for it to evolve away, it needs to have a detrimental effect . ( See vestigial organ ) A tail has muscles, bones, etc that need maintainance ( and maybe get in the way for certain types of walking ).
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His book, " The Transformist Illusion " published posthumously in 1957 attempted to show the failure of evolution using examples such as the infinitesimal probability of proteins arising out of random mixing, the fossil record, bird anatomy, blood group incompatibilities, and queried evolutionary claims in embryology and vestigial organs.
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In " The Guardian ", Steven Poole criticises Wolfe's whole approach to Darwin and dismisses his suggestion that Darwin had no evidence for his theory of evolution, saying that Darwin'adduced a lot of evidence at the time, including the geographical distribution of species, comparative anatomy, fossils and the existence of vestigial organs.
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In some texts, regarding the vestigiality of some organs in external genitalia, the nipples in men are cited as the vestigial organs of breasts in women, and the clitoris the vestigial organ of the homologous, as they are present in humans ( and primates ) of both sexes, not during the passage of animal development.
