Appendix may be useful
The appendix “acts as a good safe house for bacteria,” . The location of the appendix — just below the normal one-way flow of food and germs in the large intestine in a sort of gut cul-de-sac — helps support the theory.
Also, the worm-shaped organ outgrowth acts like a bacteria factory, cultivating the good germs.
That use is not needed in a modern industrialized society. If a person’s gut flora dies, they can usually repopulate it easily with germs they pick up from other people. 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.
Full article here.
Also, the worm-shaped organ outgrowth acts like a bacteria factory, cultivating the good germs.
That use is not needed in a modern industrialized society. If a person’s gut flora dies, they can usually repopulate it easily with germs they pick up from other people. 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.
Full article here.
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