Does the appendix have a function in modern humans, are people without an appendix worse or better off?

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Does the appendix have a function in modern humans, are people without an appendix worse or better off?

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Yes the appendix has a function, it stores bacterial cultures and can jump-start the gut from things that can wipe out the gut. It is partially vestigial as in you can survive and flourish without it

The spleen is similar. It can promote clotting factors in the blood, but the human body does well without it.