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Informative X thread on how the recurrent laryngeal nerve path is dictated by having to develop embryos through chemotaxis: https://x.com/culpable_mink/status/1
by Noumenon72 2y ago
Informative X thread on how the recurrent laryngeal nerve path is dictated by having to develop embryos through chemotaxis:
https://x.com/culpable_mink/status/1850937701518000383 https://x.com/culpable_mink/status/1850937701518000383
He mentions that even if you're a giraffe, you have nerves just as long running to the end of your spine, and from your spint to the bottoms of your feet, so the extra length of nerve isn't really a problem.
- a_c 2y agoThere is a pathway for every possible configuration. It doesn’t dictate whether a configuration is optimal. Maybe the laryngeal nerve isn’t that bad. But that doesn’t guarantee all anatomy and physiology optimal