Vestigial Arguments About Vestigial Organs Appear in Proposed Texas Teaching Materials

As documented in our Texas report, the evolution-related instructional materials proposed for use in Texas don't just contain errors about the origin of life or embryology. Some of the publishers also proposed materials that make inaccurate claims about vestigial organs and the evidence for common ancestry.

One curriculum even resuscitates long-debunked claims that the coccyx, appendix, tonsils, and many other functional organs are "vestigial," failing to mention that these organs are now r...