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Not-so-intelligent-design… the laryngeal nerve of the giraffe.

2010|11|01

As a legacy-design this recurrent laryngeal nerve was a control wire for the gills of ancient fish.  In mammalian species, this nerve has stretched to strange proportions.

(p.s. there’s a lot of guts in this video, as it’s a dissection of a giraffe)

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