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That I don’t know. Most birds have the ability to regurgitate food for their young, but that’s not the same thing as a gag reflex. Maybe google or Wikipedia hav
by cimmanom 8y ago
That I don’t know. Most birds have the ability to regurgitate food for their young, but that’s not the same thing as a gag reflex. Maybe google or Wikipedia have more info?
- jelliclesfarm 8y agoThere seems to be whole slew of reflexes. That’s what made me wonder..if we were to redesign human anatomy, what changes would we have to make? Eating and breathing through the same passageway seems to be an unfortunate and fatal bad design. Ditto with reproduction. The digestive system is pretty neat as is the neurological and brain circuitry(as much as we understand it) I just don’t get when we eat and breathe through the same tube..and give birth so close to where we poop. Seems like bad design.
- cimmanom 8y agoWhat does “bad design” mean in the context of a system that wasn’t designed? Evolution is a process that involves tiny random changes stabilizing at or near local maxima. Where you end up is largely about where you started.
- jelliclesfarm 8y agoYou are right in a way. It’s just that sometimes I feel that if evolution can be tinkered with..or improved upon, I could come up with a better design. Purely theoretical, of course