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Just to make clear to people who don't already know, "Evolutionnews.org" is a creationist (they like to call themselves "intelligent designist" but that's the s

• ncmncm 5y ago
  "... puts a pro-evolution spin on ..." was a red flag. Ontogeny really does more-or-less recapitulate phylogeny, albeit with lots of alterations and varied rates for different body parts. So, you can't really conclude very much about phylogeny from details of it, but that doesn't matter, because nobody does. You can still understand, from the concept, about the nerve to your larynx looping around under your aorta: during development, it's a straight line, like in a fish, and the nerve grows straight across, but then everything moves around afterward, and so ends up looped under. It's a bigger problem for giraffes.