{"id":92553,"date":"2026-03-18T09:35:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92553"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:35:30","slug":"appendix-like-structure-evolved-independently-in-at-least-three-distinct-lineages-of-mammals-marsupials-primates-and-glires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92553","title":{"rendered":"\u201cappendix-like structure evolved independently in at least three distinct lineages of mammals \u2013 marsupials, primates and glires\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-does-the-appendix-do-biologists-explain-the-complicated-evolution-of-this-inconvenient-organ-277012\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-does-the-appendix-do-biologists-explain-the-complicated-evolution-of-this-inconvenient-organ-277012<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We still think it\u2019s not helpful to modern humans. But perhaps helpful in pre-modern environments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-does-the-appendix-do-biologists-explain-the-complicated-evolution-of-this-inconvenient-organ-277012 We still think it\u2019s not helpful to modern humans. But perhaps helpful in pre-modern environments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-92553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92554,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92553\/revisions\/92554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}