People have a little pink band in the inside corner of their eye. "This is the plica semilunaris," says Dorsa Amir, an evolutionary anthropologist. "It used to be a third eyelid that would blink horizontally." Amir posted a fascinating Twitter thread of other " evolutionary leftovers that no longer serve a purpose" in the human body. Did you know the human body is full of evolutionary leftovers that no longer serve a purpose?
The Human Body Is "full Of Evolutionary Leftovers That No Longer Serve A Purpose"
Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing
Wed, 01/16/2019 - 11:02am
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