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Worse yet, other than the ephemeral pleasure that it provides, there is not a single biochemical process that requires dietary fructose; it is a vestigial nutrient, left over from the evolutionary differentiation between plants and animals.

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It's a very vestigial system.

Or are they relics of our evolutionary past, having once served some important purpose only to persist into the present as vestigial remnants?

There are several other vestigial structures like the plica semilunaris in the human body.

Most of these became vestigial long before homo sapiens existed, quietly riding along from one of our ancestor species to the next.

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