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Robert Wiedersheim (1848 – 1923) was a German anatomist who is famous for publishing a list of 86 “vestigial organs” in 1893. Already during his school years Wiedersheim showed an interest in botany ...
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From the late nineteenth century until the 1960s, biologists thought that the human body contained scores of useless vestigial structures, including the coccyx, ear muscles, pineal gland, thymus, vermiform appendix, wisdom teeth, and others.
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www.bookrags.com/research/vestigial-structures-wap/
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Many organisms possess vestigial structures that have no apparent function, but that resemble structures their presumed ancestors had. Humans, for example, possess a complete set of muscles for wiggling their ears, ... Ear-wiggling muscles Three small muscles around each ear that are large and important in some mammals,
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Humans do not need to move their ears to hear. We could hear the same whether we had muscles in our ears or not.
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Examples include the wings of flightless birds, the limb girdles of snakes, the appendix and the ear muscles of humans, and the scale leaves of parasitic flowering plants. The presence of vestigial organs is thought to indicate that the ancestors of the organism possessed fully functioning organs … .’5...
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www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v14/i2/vestigial.asp
www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v14/i2/vestigial.asp
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A lot of transhumanist types focus on replacing perfectly good body parts with even better ones, giving us more durable hearts or prettier eyelashes, but it seems to me we ought to start by dropping some of our vestigial organs in favor of something more useful, or at least more classy.
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www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/alttext/2007/11/alttext_1107
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Man can not do so though a few people can wiggle their ears. Our muscles to move pinna are vestigial. A few people can twitch, or raise their pinna just a little. Some do so when alone but become conscious when others are looking ... Apart from the muscles attached to the pinna there are skeletal muscles in the middle ear.
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What Are Vestigial Organs? ... Ear muscles for wiggling ... Various muscles attached to the tail bone are important for facilitating bowel and labor movements, supporting internal organs, and keeping the anus closed. Concerning the coccyx, Evan Shute wrote:
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www.creationinthecrossfire.com/Articles/VestigialOrgans...
www.creationinthecrossfire.com/Articles/VestigialOrgans.html
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The muscles that move the scalp and ears are often cited as vestigial. Mine are not vestigial. I can easily move my scalp and ears and often twitch one or ... scalp/ear muscles | Friday, June 10, 2005 | 8:04 PM Posted by Caitlin ; I can move the right side of my scalp adn my right ear a little, but my left side is harder!
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