will humans evolve to be covered in random leftover appendages?

[Le b0wski]

The coccyx being a vestigial tail, the appendix, tonsils. If we keep evolving and gaining random useless body parts will the human race eventually be covered in loads them?

 

[Yugica]

Not likely, no. The appendix and our tonsils are still useful, they just aren't as useful as they were before. To have more limbs or bits that later become vestigial you need them to have been useful beforehand and then to lose their use. We'll likely keep what we have as it's all still useful, so long as we're human.

 

[XL xQgg?QcQCaTYDMjqoDnYpG]

If it's up to technocratic politicians, your brain is considered a useless body part

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

What's the useless decorative skin around the vagina called?

a woman

 

[Le b0wski]

Not likely, no. The appendix and our tonsils are still useful, they just aren't as useful as they were before. To have more limbs or bits that later become vestigial you need them to have been useful beforehand and then to lose their use. We'll likely keep what we have as it's all still useful, so long as we're human.

Can't be that useful if people cutting them out all the time, you probably don't even have tonsils now.

 

[Sparkletor 2.0]

Can't be that useful if people cutting them out all the time, you probably don't even have tonsils now.

Lol. It's more profitable to prescribe antibiotics for life every time you get strep throat than to give a kid a tonsillectomy.

 

[Yugica]

Can't be that useful if people cutting them out all the time, you probably don't even have tonsils now.

They're usually getting them cut out because of some medical complication(like appendicitis for the appendix which if it bursts will lead to a more serious outcome and be life threatening). People lose their gallbladders or spleens too for similar reasons but can still live largely normal lives. You can lose a kidney too, despite how critical it is for you to live. I still have my tonsils as well.

 

[Le b0wski]

All I'm hearing is a list of useless body parts to become vestigial. Only so long before we evolve away from needing that 2nd kidney to trade it for an iphone.

 

[We Are The Witches]

If they are truly useless, and in your hypothetical where humans keep evolving, then they might completely transform those vestigial organs to oblivion, and have them no more.

But maybe there would have to be a critical mass of them, which isn't happening before humanity kills itself, high level eugenics & genetic modification becomes a thing, or some celestial object obliterates life in this cursed planet.

 

[Haloperidol]

Can't be that useful if people cutting them out all the time, you probably don't even have tonsils now.

Getting your tonsils out as a matter of routine was still in vogue a couple decades ago, eventually they realized the risk of inflammation isn’t worth taking a part of the immune system out preemptively

Always interesting to see what medical stuff they did to you as a kid that they went back on later. Beats being trooned out I guess.

 

[Poison]

To have more limbs or bits that later become vestigial you need them to have been useful beforehand and then to lose their use. We'll likely keep what we have as it's all still useful, so long as we're human.

This makes me certain that areas of the frontal lobal responsible for critical thinking will become vestigial somewhere down the line.

 

[Pruto]

Thanks for giving me a new fetish