In fact, these days many biologists are extremely wary of talking about vestigial organs at all. It has even been suggested that the term is obsolete, useful only as a reflection of the anatomical knowledge of the day.
Over the years, the list grew, then shrank again. In 1893, a German anatomist named Robert Wiedersheim drew up a list of 86 human “vestiges”, organs “formerly of greater physiological significance than at present”. VESTIGIAL organs have long been a source of perplexity and irritation for doctors and of fascination for the rest of us.
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