(November 15, 2018 at 1:44 pm)Everena Wrote:(November 15, 2018 at 4:24 am)Grandizer Wrote: Well, the standard explanation is that whales evolved from land mammals, hence the vestigial leg bones.
So next specific question:
Why is the path of the recurrent laryngeal nerve from the brain to the larynx not a straight path, but follows an unnecessarily long-winded path that can only be explained by large-scale evolution?
Everena: I read the findings about the whale and what they think it means. It's a straight up guess. My guess is just as good.
That's funny you brought up laryngeal nerve
The old argument used to be- Why do we have an appendix? Now we know the appendix stores good bacteria and repopulates the digestive system after an illness in order to keep us healthy.
As for the recurrent laryngeal nerve, I'm sure we will discover that there is actually a good reason for the path it takes at some point in the future. There are of course already numerous papers from doctors on the web explaining why the design is actually better. Here's an article discussing both sides of this argument https://evolutionnews.org/2010/10/the_re...al_nerve_/

Evolutionnews.org.
That’s a good one.
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