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The placenta is the human body's only dispensable organ, which you once grew of your own flesh, then, upon entering the world, no longer needed.
For many months , this was the organ that, using resources from your mother, fed you.
It was a steely, dogged organ. It lived only to serve. It gave up its life within minutes of your birth.
Every species of mammal currently alive has its own kind of placenta that has been crafted and tinkered with by natural selection for more than 100 million years to find the right balance between the survival needs of mother and the thirst for blood of embryos.
The human placentas appear to be among those with the fiercest appetite for maternal nutrients.
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