How advantageous a trait is depends on the environment. If having an appendix gives you an advantage in one environment, it would be selected for there. The appendix may confer an advantage that we do not yet know of. And as environments change, so does the benefit of that trait. So, you see, evolution does not move toward a specific end-goal -- it doesn't "advance."
And anyone without an appendix is probably born with several other traits that you might consider "evolutionarily behind." So we can't really pin entire people as evolutionarily "advanced" or not.
Also, the ancestors of Neanderthal man diverged from the ancestors of our species long ago -- they actually co-existed with our own ancestors! It is thought that the Neanderthals were either killed off or simply died out.
2007-02-20 13:06:38
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answered by Surely Funke 6
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Pete Sampras is the living proof that neanderthal man actually existed. Also someone born without an appendix has just been short changed a little bit. However think what people undergo to get rid of their's.
2007-02-24 01:10:18
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answered by Anonymous
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Maybe. I agree that on an individual basis, it might just be a random thing. But on the whole, appendices are probably on their way out. However, I do remember learning that they serve a small function- they are made of lymphatic tissue. So maybe evolution would just tend toward the "I don't get poop stuck inside of me and get all inflamed and burst and kill my owner from the inside out" end of the spectrum. If you're listening, Appendix God, that might be the best solution.
But I am concerned about your hairy people question. I hope you don't think that black people are less evolutionarily advanced! Maybe hair is just an adaptation appropriate to wherever that person is from. The world is so big and diverse, it's hard to see current evolution in generalized terms.
2007-02-20 14:21:47
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answered by Anonymous
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in simple terms through fact some babies are being born with out appendix and understanding tooth does no longer recommend that we've been more advantageous. the completed theory of evolution is a gloomy theory. the thought we are mere injuries and that there is not any actual meaning in existence? the place is the wish? i compliment the Lord that this existence isn't all there is. i'm so grateful that the final is yet to return and that this international incredibly isn't my domicile. i do no longer desire data to have faith that God is the author of the international. in simple terms look at this introduction, the surprising thing approximately all of it-- how in the international ought to it fairly is an twist of destiny?
2016-10-16 03:28:12
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answered by Anonymous
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Extra hair is a result of the hormone testosterone, the male sex hormone. You could say it makes him "more of a man".
As for the appendix, it's just one of those things. One of my great aunts has three kidneys, I was born with only three wisdom teeth present in my jaw, only two of which ever emerged.
If changes are happening to people, I suspect they are more in the brain department rather than in the body.
2007-02-20 19:01:26
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answered by Vivienne T 5
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Evolution is a theory. It has never been proven. There are birth defects that happen all the time. This ceratinly does not mean that evolution has anything to do with it. Evolution will never be proven, because it is simply an opinion with very little scientific evidence to back it up. Believe me, if it were able to be proven, it would have been by now.
2007-02-20 13:06:34
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answered by jewel 3
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