what’s this for again welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten useless
body parts before we begin we publish
new videos every day so be sure to
subscribe for more great content for
this list we’re looking at body parts
that serve the purpose at some point in
the human evolutionary process but have
little to no use for modern humans
number 10
tonsils a man who’s had his tonsils
removed twice as part of the lymphatic
system tonsils do serve a purpose well
it’s kind of they’re part of your body’s
first line of defense against foreign
airborne pathogens the problem is the
tonsils can get easily infected leading
to tonsillitis and might require surgery
to remove but when you lose them it’s
not like you’re vulnerable ironically
tonsils seem to invite more infections
than they prevent which is why infection
prone kids sometimes say Tootles to
tonsils
if chronic tonsillitis becomes a problem
although doctors are less gung-ho to
remove tonsils these days it’s not
because they’ve proven that useful
it’s that removing them haven’t always
been shown to be beneficial enough
towards the risks of surgery number nine
the subclavius muscle unless you’re
still walking on all fours like our
ancestors or simian cousins chances are
you won’t be needing this particular
body part the subclavius muscle is
situated under each of the clavicle or
collarbone and it’s used to press the
shoulder down and forward that means
it’s pretty much useless today as we
rarely need to perform such movements
anymore though it was helpful back in
our quadrupedal days helping to
stabilize the collarbones while walking
it’s so unnecessary that natural
evolution has apparently started to
phase it out
according to Discover Magazine some
people no longer have the muscle and
while some have – and others have one
number eight underarm hair armpit or
axillary hair along with all body hair
is another reminder of our primate past
why is this hair more prominent than the
hair on the rest of our bodies while we
can’t say for sure our apocrine sweat
glands provide the most viable
explanation if
thought that these sweat glands produce
pheromones that are then caught in the
hair to produce a smell to attract mates
while that’s great for when DK hits on
candy Kong there is no conclusive
evidence that pheromones have any sexual
effect on humans making armpit hair more
or less unnecessary another theory is
the hair helps ventilation but these
days many women shave theirs while some
men trim or shave it for aesthetic
reasons no more lush untamed forest of
leg and arm veneer number seven the
palmares longus muscle located close to
your wrist this outdated muscle was used
by our ancient ancestors for climbing
nowadays monkeys that climb the most
have larger proportioned Palmeiras
muscles than their ground-based cousins
interestingly enough around 14% of us
don’t even have the muscle are you among
the few give it a try extend your arm
out palm facing up press the tips of
your fingers together and slightly flex
and tilt back your wrist if the answer
is no you haven’t got one but don’t
worry it has no effect on grip strength
the muscles so useless it’s commonly
used as a graft to fix ruptured tendons
so its uselessness actually makes it
useful in a roundabout way how’s that
for irony
you
number six for skin with the bots
discussing politics or economics is
foreskin admittedly this one has been
the subject of debate time and time
again the foreskin once served a
historical purpose but nowadays a body
can go either way it’s a natural part of
the penis so it contains a ton of nerve
receptors that make the act of
reproduction feel great without it the
penis can become less sensitive but
that’s arguably as far as its modern
purpose goes there are arguments for
keeping it intact like protecting
infants from infection but nothing
concrete I think it looks frightening
when it cut off well it might not be
useful there’s no strong medical
motivation for its elimination these
days foreskins are removed for religious
or aesthetic reasons but some adults are
now undergoing steps to reverse
circumcision it just seemed that nature
was perfect in the way it it works
number five the fifth or pinkie toe
remembrance live in doubt thank you
we’ve all wondered at some point what
the heck our pinky toe is therefore it
doesn’t stabilize us while walking and
it doesn’t look all that great either
sitting all shy in the corner our
primate relatives still use their long
fifth toes to climb but modern humans
don’t need that kind of movement
interestingly enough even though you can
do without your pinky toe the metatarsal
bone that connects to it is necessary
for you to walk and run hey at least
it’s still there if we ever need to pick
something up and are too lazy to bend
over and your other toes are too tired
or something number four the auricular
or auricular s muscles the human ear is
a veritable hotbed of useless
evolutionary leftovers for example
Darwin’s tubercle while the auricular
might sound like a totally rad name for
a muscle group it sadly does not live up
to the hype located in the outer part of
the ear these muscles only allow us to
wiggle our ears up and down and back and
forth you’ll notice that some animals
can rotate their ears towards the source
of a sound right
this muscle suggests that somewhere back
along the evolutionary path we had a
similar ability but
not anymore while these muscles aren’t
as appealing as biceps or abs they can
still win a few hearts with their
wiggling wizardry number three male
nipples I’m dead sexy look at my sexy
good day we all know nipples have a
purpose on female bodies but why do men
have nipples too well if you could
remember as far back as being in utero
you recall that you developed the same
way for the first two months regardless
of your eventual sex and thus nipples
for everyone if you got the Y chromosome
however you eventually started producing
testosterone and the male parts that
come with it since nipples got in before
the lock so to speak
men are stuck with them admittedly there
have been cases of men lactating but
since we dealt they proceeded to feed
their young with them we’re sticking
with our verdict of useless number two
the appendix appendix it seems the most
common function of this organ is to
cause excruciating pain and then explode
and poisonous according to experts
though the appendix likely facilitated
digestion for our ancestors as their
forage heavy diets consisted of a lot of
uncooked food and cellulose from grass
and plants our diets have since evolved
to include a lot more cooked meals and
hopefully little to no grass effectively
making this vestigial organ a waste of
space
some doctors claim the appendix houses
good bacteria during illness and can
then repopulate the intestines with it
when the coast is clear
but until conclusive evidence is
presented the appendix ranks high on the
useless scale number one wisdom teeth
all four wisdom teeth sit comfortably in
my mouth without need of extraction most
useless body parts are either benign or
only negatively affect a small number of
people not so for these troublesome
teeth they’ve caused throbbing pain for
many people there are remnants from our
ancestors who likely had larger jobs
because of their diet of raw plants and
meat
these days we eat softer foods so our
jaws didn’t need to grow as large this
often leaves wisdom teeth trapped and
impacted leading to complications some
scientists also claim that since our
ancestors didn’t have the same hygiene
it would have been space for the third
molars when other teeth fell out so the
silver lining wisdom teeth are useful in
providing tons of hilarious post removal
videos do you agree with our picks check
out these other great clips from watch
mojo and subscribe for new videos every
day
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watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top ten useless
body parts before we begin we publish
new videos every day so be sure to
subscribe for more great content for
this list we’re looking at body parts
that serve the purpose at some point in
the human evolutionary process but have
little to no use for modern humans
number 10
tonsils a man who’s had his tonsils
removed twice as part of the lymphatic
system tonsils do serve a purpose well
it’s kind of they’re part of your body’s
first line of defense against foreign
airborne pathogens the problem is the
tonsils can get easily infected leading
to tonsillitis and might require surgery
to remove but when you lose them it’s
not like you’re vulnerable ironically
tonsils seem to invite more infections
than they prevent which is why infection
prone kids sometimes say Tootles to
tonsils
if chronic tonsillitis becomes a problem
although doctors are less gung-ho to
remove tonsils these days it’s not
because they’ve proven that useful
it’s that removing them haven’t always
been shown to be beneficial enough
towards the risks of surgery number nine
the subclavius muscle unless you’re
still walking on all fours like our
ancestors or simian cousins chances are
you won’t be needing this particular
body part the subclavius muscle is
situated under each of the clavicle or
collarbone and it’s used to press the
shoulder down and forward that means
it’s pretty much useless today as we
rarely need to perform such movements
anymore though it was helpful back in
our quadrupedal days helping to
stabilize the collarbones while walking
it’s so unnecessary that natural
evolution has apparently started to
phase it out
according to Discover Magazine some
people no longer have the muscle and
while some have – and others have one
number eight underarm hair armpit or
axillary hair along with all body hair
is another reminder of our primate past
why is this hair more prominent than the
hair on the rest of our bodies while we
can’t say for sure our apocrine sweat
glands provide the most viable
explanation if
thought that these sweat glands produce
pheromones that are then caught in the
hair to produce a smell to attract mates
while that’s great for when DK hits on
candy Kong there is no conclusive
evidence that pheromones have any sexual
effect on humans making armpit hair more
or less unnecessary another theory is
the hair helps ventilation but these
days many women shave theirs while some
men trim or shave it for aesthetic
reasons no more lush untamed forest of
leg and arm veneer number seven the
palmares longus muscle located close to
your wrist this outdated muscle was used
by our ancient ancestors for climbing
nowadays monkeys that climb the most
have larger proportioned Palmeiras
muscles than their ground-based cousins
interestingly enough around 14% of us
don’t even have the muscle are you among
the few give it a try extend your arm
out palm facing up press the tips of
your fingers together and slightly flex
and tilt back your wrist if the answer
is no you haven’t got one but don’t
worry it has no effect on grip strength
the muscles so useless it’s commonly
used as a graft to fix ruptured tendons
so its uselessness actually makes it
useful in a roundabout way how’s that
for irony
you
number six for skin with the bots
discussing politics or economics is
foreskin admittedly this one has been
the subject of debate time and time
again the foreskin once served a
historical purpose but nowadays a body
can go either way it’s a natural part of
the penis so it contains a ton of nerve
receptors that make the act of
reproduction feel great without it the
penis can become less sensitive but
that’s arguably as far as its modern
purpose goes there are arguments for
keeping it intact like protecting
infants from infection but nothing
concrete I think it looks frightening
when it cut off well it might not be
useful there’s no strong medical
motivation for its elimination these
days foreskins are removed for religious
or aesthetic reasons but some adults are
now undergoing steps to reverse
circumcision it just seemed that nature
was perfect in the way it it works
number five the fifth or pinkie toe
remembrance live in doubt thank you
we’ve all wondered at some point what
the heck our pinky toe is therefore it
doesn’t stabilize us while walking and
it doesn’t look all that great either
sitting all shy in the corner our
primate relatives still use their long
fifth toes to climb but modern humans
don’t need that kind of movement
interestingly enough even though you can
do without your pinky toe the metatarsal
bone that connects to it is necessary
for you to walk and run hey at least
it’s still there if we ever need to pick
something up and are too lazy to bend
over and your other toes are too tired
or something number four the auricular
or auricular s muscles the human ear is
a veritable hotbed of useless
evolutionary leftovers for example
Darwin’s tubercle while the auricular
might sound like a totally rad name for
a muscle group it sadly does not live up
to the hype located in the outer part of
the ear these muscles only allow us to
wiggle our ears up and down and back and
forth you’ll notice that some animals
can rotate their ears towards the source
of a sound right
this muscle suggests that somewhere back
along the evolutionary path we had a
similar ability but
not anymore while these muscles aren’t
as appealing as biceps or abs they can
still win a few hearts with their
wiggling wizardry number three male
nipples I’m dead sexy look at my sexy
good day we all know nipples have a
purpose on female bodies but why do men
have nipples too well if you could
remember as far back as being in utero
you recall that you developed the same
way for the first two months regardless
of your eventual sex and thus nipples
for everyone if you got the Y chromosome
however you eventually started producing
testosterone and the male parts that
come with it since nipples got in before
the lock so to speak
men are stuck with them admittedly there
have been cases of men lactating but
since we dealt they proceeded to feed
their young with them we’re sticking
with our verdict of useless number two
the appendix appendix it seems the most
common function of this organ is to
cause excruciating pain and then explode
and poisonous according to experts
though the appendix likely facilitated
digestion for our ancestors as their
forage heavy diets consisted of a lot of
uncooked food and cellulose from grass
and plants our diets have since evolved
to include a lot more cooked meals and
hopefully little to no grass effectively
making this vestigial organ a waste of
space
some doctors claim the appendix houses
good bacteria during illness and can
then repopulate the intestines with it
when the coast is clear
but until conclusive evidence is
presented the appendix ranks high on the
useless scale number one wisdom teeth
all four wisdom teeth sit comfortably in
my mouth without need of extraction most
useless body parts are either benign or
only negatively affect a small number of
people not so for these troublesome
teeth they’ve caused throbbing pain for
many people there are remnants from our
ancestors who likely had larger jobs
because of their diet of raw plants and
meat
these days we eat softer foods so our
jaws didn’t need to grow as large this
often leaves wisdom teeth trapped and
impacted leading to complications some
scientists also claim that since our
ancestors didn’t have the same hygiene
it would have been space for the third
molars when other teeth fell out so the
silver lining wisdom teeth are useful in
providing tons of hilarious post removal
videos do you agree with our picks check
out these other great clips from watch
mojo and subscribe for new videos every
day
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