Talk:The tail bone is not vestigial since there are nine muscles that attach to it
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Ear lobes
I removed this response:
- Ear lobes are not vestigial since there are ears attached to them.
It didn't sound too, uh, sense-sounding...--Mr A. 03:37, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
More tails
- Human embryos have a tail that measures about one-sixth of the size of the embryo itself. As the embryo develops into a fetus, the tail is absorbed by the growing body.
- Infrequently, a child is born with a "soft tail", which contains no vertebrae, but only blood vessels, muscles, and nerves, although there have been a very few documented cases of tails containing cartilage or up to five vertebrae. Modern procedures allow doctors to eliminate the tail at delivery. The longest human tail on record belonged to a twelve-year-old boy living in what was then French Indochina, which measured 229 mm (9 inches). A man named Chandre Oram, who was born in India, is famous because of his 13-inch (330 mm) tail. Nonetheless, it is not believed to be a true tail but a case of spina bifida. Sara Herandi, a female, was another similar case but to a smaller extent (approximately 5-inches), her case was more abnormal as her tail contained hair that resembled that of a squirrel's tail.
I removed those because they aren't responses to the claim. There are sure interesting, but they don't seem to refute anything. --tk 10:29, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
