6 Myths Debunked About The Human Body

Just how unique are your fingerprints? Appendix’s purpose? Why aren’t we totally human? How do we really taste things?

Plus a couple more myths and misconceptions you thought were true!

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Sources: PLOS ONE, Columbia University Medical Centre, BBC, The Guardian, Live Science, Huffington post, Science Museum, Source: British Medical Journal, Researchgate, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Comptes Rendus Palevol, Science Daily, Duke University Medical Center, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, the University of Stellenbosch, the French National Museum of Natural History, Scientific American, Futurism, Smithsonian, Science ABC, The Guardian, BBC, The Second Book Of General Ignorance by John Lloyd & Mitchinson, and The New York Times.

Some available links for further reading:

Taste:

Heat:

Finger Prints:

Appendix:

Pee Color:

Microbiome: