Favourite vestigiality

Anatomical

  • Appendix
  • Coccyx
  • Wisdom teeth
  • Vomeronasal organ
  • Darwin’s Tubercle
  • Third eyelid
  • Müller’s muscle
  • Gartner’s duct
  • Epoophoron
  • Paroophoron
  • Occipitalis minor
  • Platysma
  • Vibrissal capsular
  • Palmaris longus
  • Pyramidalis muscle
  • Latissimus dorsi
  • “The freshman’s nerve”
  • Chondroglossus muscle
  • Focal fat mounds

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Behavioral

  • Goosebumps
  • Hiccups
  • Palmer’s grasp reflex

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Shout out to the focal fat mounds. Our eight tiny boobs :smiling_face_with_tear:

Woah! V impressive thread!

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Thank you very much. I was a bit worried about including the debatable appendix but glad its not resulted in mayhem :pray:

That new concept metal album you’re writing is really coming along!

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yet…

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Appendix can get to fuck - does nothing aside from potentially kill you :-1:

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Boffins now think its a reservoir for gut bacteria so after an illness it can pump some back into your stomach, but they must work for Big Appendix.

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No fans of the whiskers muscles. Shame that.

Screw those guys :rage:

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There are some sex ones I refused to include because if they give pleasure they are not vestigial imo as Head Biologist.

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Bravo.

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.* Googles ‘vestigiality’…

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These are all made up things to go on @epimer’s list of future song titles, right?

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Tonight at the Dublin Castle etc…

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