If you are born without an Appendix are you more evolutionarily advanced?

Question:

If you are born without an Appendix are you more evolutionarily advanced?

I know it may sound odd, but I was wondering that if you are born without an Appendix then does that mean you are more evolutionarily advanced then people who are born with one?
Plus I was wondering if hairy people (Pete Sampras Hairy) are closer related to Neanderthal man?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: How advantageous a trait is depends on the environment. If having an appendix gives you an advantage in one environment, it would be selected for there. The appendix may confer an advantage that we do not yet know of. And as environments change, so does the benefit of that trait. So, you see, evolution does not move toward a specific end-goal -- it doesn't "advance."

And anyone without an appendix is probably born with several other traits that you might consider "evolutionarily behind." So we can't really pin entire people as evolutionarily "advanced" or not.

Also, the ancestors of Neanderthal man diverged from the ancestors of our species long ago -- they actually co-existed with our own ancestors! It is thought that the Neanderthals were either killed off or simply died out.