This week the boys discuss the bits and bobs on the human body left over from our monkey days. Oh what days those were. Sitting in trees, eating fruit, fighting other monkeys. Even better, back when we were simple fish. No lofty dreams of walking or driving cars. Only swim and eat. Can you imagine? The sweet bliss of fish existence. And then one fish said to another, "Glub Glub" (Translated: "Brother, I long for more! For the surface, where there is open fields and an endless bounty of foods"). The other fish, being older and wiser, responded in kind, "Glub Glub" (Translated: "Nay, you fool! your youth grants you courage and ambition, but it clouds your mind with visions of grandeur and luxury. In your endless drive for adventure you shall doom not just yourself, but your very soul!"). And then the younger fish grew legs and went on land and now I have to pay rent so fuck that fish, I hate him. 

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Sources:

Vestigial Organs: https://scienceoxford.com/vestigial-organs/

Human Vestigiality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_vestigiality

Picture of the Appendix: https://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/picture-of-the-appendix

Appendicitis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendicitis#cite_note-GBD2015Pre-8

Coccyx: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccyx

What Is a Human Tail?: https://www.webmd.com/baby/what-is-a-human-tail#1

Atavism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atavism

An extra organ or body part is more common than you think: https://theconversation.com/an-extra-organ-or-body-part-is-more-common-than-you-think-76523

The accessory spleen: prevalence and imaging findings in 1,735 consecutive patients examined by multidetector computed tomography: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22764656/

Supernumerary Body Part: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernumerary_body_part

Wisdom Tooth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_tooth

Plica Semilunaris of Conjunctiva: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plica_semilunaris_of_conjunctiva

The Elephants' Third Eyelid (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWRCW7PYKw

Calabar Angwantibo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabar_angwantibo

Circumcision: https://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/guide/circumcision

Foreskin reclaimers: the ‘intactivists’ fighting infant male circumcision: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/21/foreskin-reclaimers-the-intactivists-fighting-infant-male-circumcision

Hymen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymen

Female Hysteria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria

Of Womb-Furie, Hysteria, and Other Misnomers of the Feminine Condition: https://lithub.com/of-womb-furie-hysteria-and-other-misnomers-of-the-feminine-condition/

Goose Bumps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose_bumps

Palmer Grasp Reflex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmar_grasp_reflex

MAN AFTER MAN REDUX | Book Collection (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c44kM8125WU

Man After Man (book): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_After_Man

Man After Man Wiki: https://speculativeevolution.fandom.com/wiki/Man_After_Man:_An_Anthropology_of_the_Future