The human body is an amazing machine. Despite its apparent fragility, it is strong and, fortunately, whether due to accidents, diseases or other reasons (such as malformations in the fetus), we have parts of the body that we do not need. Some, in fact, are useful to us in childhood and others are redundant. Hence, it is possible to lose large portions of vital organs and survive (we can live with only half a brain, for example).
Evolution always takes its time to make certain adjustments, hence we all end up with certain things that we do not need. In the case of organs, we have already seen that a human being can live with half of his thinking organ and that we are even capable of leading a relatively normal life without the presence of some of them.
It may surprise you but, although that machine that is our body has an important function for each of its parts, with the passage of time and centuries, there are some organs that have lost a certain sense of being, a certain functionality, so that if we do not have them, our day to day is not going to be altered or, at least, not to a great extent.
What organs can we do without?
The tonsils, for example, although they protect us from a bacterial invasion through the respiratory tract, they are not essential. The same happens with the appendix, the spleen, the male nipples, the reproductive systems, both male and female, or the gallbladder. There are many more. Let’s find out why they are expendable.
