单选题 It can be inferred from the passage that the author of the passage would be most likely to agree with which of the following assertions about the appendix?

• (A) Scientists have ruled out the possibility that the appendix is involved in hindgut fermentation in all species, including rabbits.
• (B) As an organ, the appendix is more useful to the immune response of human beings in their first development than later in life.
• (C) The human appendix contains greater amounts of lymphoid tissue than the aggregates of which that are found in other areas of the gastrointestinal tract.
• (D) The appendix in a human child is generally less well developed than the appendix in a human adult.
• (E) The presence of the appendix in humans suggests that the human digestive process resembles the rabbit digestive process more than that of other animal species.