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Richard Dawkins demonstrates laryngeal nerve of the giraffe
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A clip from Channel 4's Inside Nature's Giants in which Richard Dawkins shows the recurrent laryngeal nerve of the giraffe during a dissection. The nerve takes a long detour down the neck and back up.
HN uses it as the canonical example that evolution is not optimal and can get stuck in local maxima.
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