#and propagation of measurement errors for raport is some kind of a tool made especially for torment
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regular-gnome · 17 hours ago
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What's Anatomist up to lately? (I miss my bae)
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They are mainly working, occasionally getting annoyed at how evolution makes things more difficult for them to work on
it's reference to the recurrent laryngeal nerve. The fun thing about it is that it's the nerve that innervates the muscles in the larynx, but it detours around the aorta on its way from the brain to the voice box. This is especially noticeable in larger animals where the heart and the voice box are far apart. For example, in giraffes, the structures are only a few centimeters apart, but the nerve can get 5 meters long because it travels all the way down to the chest and then loops back up. This is a result of how structures evolved from fish (with no necks) to large animals (with large necks). Evolution can't just "unplug" the nerve and optimize it, so next best thing is to gradually adjust over time
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animation of the process | bit more info about it
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