Science friday? Appendix may be useful after all

October 5th, 2007 | by jeff | | Post to NewsCloud »

That use is not needed in a modern industrialized society, Parker said. If a person’s gut flora dies, they can usually repopulate it easily with germs they pick up from other people, he said. But before dense populations in modern times and during epidemics of cholera that affected a whole region, it wasn’t as easy to grow back that bacteria and the appendix came in handy.

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  1. One Response to “Science friday? Appendix may be useful after all”

  2. By visual dvd on Jan 1, 2008 | Reply

    Genetic testing on unborn children is, is not ethical

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