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* The genetic manipulation side is handled fairly well in [[Schismatrix]]. The Shapers are engineered to not only go without appendices, but also to not need any of the bacteria humans currently need to digest food properly, allowing Shaper habitats to be free of any non-engineered nasties. Unfortunately for them, not everybody has this advantage; Shapers going from the aseptic environment to a bacterial one tend to get diarrhea, nausea and horrible rashes. Non-Shapers living in their habitats have to agree to get their intestines pumped and eat regular doses of foul-tasting yoghurt full of digestive enzymes to make up for it.
* This is exhibited by the children in Nicole Luiken's ''Violet Eyes.''
* H.G. Wells designed the Martians in ''War of the Worlds'' by turning this trope [[Up to Eleven]]: he started from a humanoid body plan, then stripped off ''everything''
* The futuristic anatomical doll in the short story "Mimsy Were The Borogroves" lacked an appendix, and a distinguishable large intestine for that matter. It also had at least one entirely new organ system, suggesting changes were engineered rather than evolved.
* ''[[Philip Jose Farmer|The Wind Whales of Ishmael]]'' features a race of four toed future people.
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