Richard Dawkins Demonstrates Laryngeal Nerve of the Giraffe (warning: some may consider graphic)

Ian David

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Fri Jun-11-10 09:18 PM
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Richard Dawkins Demonstrates Laryngeal Nerve of the Giraffe (warning: some may consider graphic)

Edited on Fri Jun-11-10 09:21 PM by Ian David

Warning: this video contains an animal dissection.

Richard Dawkins Demonstrates Laryngeal Nerve of the Giraffe
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdm5he_richard-dawkins-demonstrates-laryng_tech/

Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/smokenfog/status/15853447075

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Ozymanithrax

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Fri Jun-11-10 09:29 PM
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1. That was cool, but the really gross sight was Geoffrey Jr.

Nearly lost my luch.

Another strike against the clockmaker.

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Ian David

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Fri Jun-11-10 09:34 PM
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3. Also, Lemurs don't have lips, yet they eat primarily fruit.

They have to tilt their heads up at the sky, or else the juice falls out of their mouth.

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Poll_Blind

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Fri Jun-11-10 09:33 PM
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2. Absolutely awesome bit of video- thanks for posting that! n/t

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Sat Jun-12-10 01:06 PM
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4. That was totally awesome.

I loved the look of relish on Richard's face as science was happening right before him.

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Ian David

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Sat Jun-12-10 07:55 PM
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5. I thought maybe he was just hungry. n/t

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pokerfan

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Sat Jun-12-10 09:21 PM
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6. From Dawkins' Greatest Show on Earth

Edited on Sat Jun-12-10 09:28 PM by pokerfan

The picture opposite, from a 1986 textbook by Berry and Hallam, shows how the laryngeal nerve lacks a detour in a shark. To illustrate the detour in a mammal, Berry and Hallam chose - what more striking example could there be? - a giraffe.

All that is beside the main point, which is that the recurrent laryngeal nerve in any mammal is good evidence against a designer. And in the giraffe it stretches from good to spectacular! That bizarrely long detour down the giraffe's neck and back up again is exactly the kind of thing we expect from evolution by natural selection, and exactly the kind of thing we do not expect from any kind of intelligent designer.

ETA: ALso here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_common_descent#Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve_in_giraffes

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Cleobulus

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Sun Jun-13-10 08:24 AM
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7. Can't see the video from here, but if it is what I think it is, it comes from a series called...

Inside Nature's Giants, a kick ass series where they dissect an Elephant, Whale, Nile Crocodile, and Giraffe.

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denimgirly

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Mon Aug-23-10 01:27 AM
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8. Where is this video clip from??

Edited on Mon Aug-23-10 01:28 AM by denimgirly

no one seems to say (based on my searching around the net)

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