Why do scientists consider vestigial structures (like a human appendix) evidence for evolution?

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Why do scientists consider vestigial structures (like a human appendix) evidence for evolution?

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Vestigial organs are some organs in host body which are no use to the host organisms. These are throught to lost its function in the host organisms throughout the course of evolution but have retained the struture . 

It was charles darwin himself who first propogated the idea that vestigal organs are evidence for evolution in his book origin of species . 

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