Vestigial Organs?

he seems to be using terminology that we dont routinely use, he calls it the bursa pharyngea...i think its old terminology. I provided the medical definition which said:a cystic notochordal remnant found inconstantly in the posterior wall of the nasopharynx at the lower end of the pharyngeal tonsil.the image shows a digagram of where the pharyngeal tonsil is located...its highlighted in green. im aware that its been done for a long time but that is not what is being discussed.... we are talking about the 'idea' of vestigial organs which has nothing to when tonisils first started being removed.Edited by Peg, : No reason given.Edited by Peg, : No reason given.

thanks for pointing that out, i was wondering why the book used that termIm going to keep looking into this because i really dont believe that people are deliberately lying about the tonsils being called vestigials...I have searched right thru the book and this was the only mention of the tonsils so perhaps its not this writer where the idea came from but someone else.

I would like to send a message to the writer of the wiki entry and ask for clarification as to where he found tonisils in wiedersheims list of vestigials...i'll do that and post back here with his/response.

Ok.As similar to monkeys that we may 'appear' and as similar to their dna ours may be, we still cannot reproduce with themthis is because of there is a species barrier proving that we are not the same species as them...we are completely different.Having similar traits does not make us related and most definately does not prove that we evolved from the species in question. i dont know enough about what you are talking about here to comment.

not necessarily. Just because we have two arms and two legs does not mean we share a common ancestorsheep, pigs and deers have split hooves...are they related? perhaps the gene was rendered inactive once it was inserted into the mouseor perhaps in a fully formed animals, having something inserted isnt going to change what is already there???have they tried this in the embryonic stages of life before the genes have had a chance to do what they were designed to do????

a pig and a sheep is related! Im expected to believe that?I guess they are similar in size...they have two ears two eyes .... hair is a bit different and only one has horns, but hey they both have split hooves so they must be relatedseriously.